Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidad

Professional responsibility provides the groundwork for medicine since the existence of the Hippocratic Oath. Physicians must be prepared to justify their decisions and actions, based on scientific issues but also considering the underlying professional responsibilities. Ethical theories form a majo...

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Autor principal: Figueroa C,Gustavo
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2006
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720060002000172006-03-17Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidadFigueroa C,Gustavo Ethical aspects Ethics Moral obligations Social responsibility Professional responsibility provides the groundwork for medicine since the existence of the Hippocratic Oath. Physicians must be prepared to justify their decisions and actions, based on scientific issues but also considering the underlying professional responsibilities. Ethical theories form a major part of such justification. A number of competing ethical theories may be identified. The maximal, minimal and excellence ethical theories agree with our experience with moral uncertainties. But veracity ethics is a new form of answering moral questions. Clinical situations are unavoidably conflictive. Lucid understanding of the necessary character of these conflicts leads to self-recognition and the itinerary of veracity ethics runs from misunderstanding to recognition. The self-awareness that veracity offers to physicians is difficult and painful due to the narcissistic humiliation that it inflicts on theminfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.134 n.2 20062006-02-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872006000200017es10.4067/S0034-98872006000200017
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Ethical aspects
Ethics
Moral obligations
Social responsibility
spellingShingle Ethical aspects
Ethics
Moral obligations
Social responsibility
Figueroa C,Gustavo
Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidad
description Professional responsibility provides the groundwork for medicine since the existence of the Hippocratic Oath. Physicians must be prepared to justify their decisions and actions, based on scientific issues but also considering the underlying professional responsibilities. Ethical theories form a major part of such justification. A number of competing ethical theories may be identified. The maximal, minimal and excellence ethical theories agree with our experience with moral uncertainties. But veracity ethics is a new form of answering moral questions. Clinical situations are unavoidably conflictive. Lucid understanding of the necessary character of these conflicts leads to self-recognition and the itinerary of veracity ethics runs from misunderstanding to recognition. The self-awareness that veracity offers to physicians is difficult and painful due to the narcissistic humiliation that it inflicts on them
author Figueroa C,Gustavo
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title Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidad
title_short Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidad
title_full Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidad
title_fullStr Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidad
title_full_unstemmed Responsabilidad profesional: máximos, mínimos, excelencia y veracidad
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