Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexiones

Currently, the Ebola virus has been classified by the WHO as “an international public health emergency” that has highlighted among other things, the enormous importance of proper and timely medical care. However, the complexity of this new health scenario, mainly due to personal...

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Autor principal: Donoso S,Claudia
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Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720150007000142015-09-03Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexionesDonoso S,Claudia Ethics Ethics, Medical Moral Obligations Professional Currently, the Ebola virus has been classified by the WHO as “an international public health emergency” that has highlighted among other things, the enormous importance of proper and timely medical care. However, the complexity of this new health scenario, mainly due to personal risk in the event of infection, means that professionals are directly faced with situations of great ethical conflict since there is a competition between their duties to patients, colleagues, society and those directed to their own safety. The reasons given by those professionals who respond positively to the duties of their patients have been categorized into three items, namely: professional ethics, the need to help and work ethics. The philosophical foundations of these responses find their roots in the compassion and sense of responsibility that arise when we face helplessness.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.143 n.7 20152015-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872015000700014es10.4067/S0034-98872015000700014
institution Scielo Chile
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Ethics
Ethics, Medical
Moral Obligations
Professional
spellingShingle Ethics
Ethics, Medical
Moral Obligations
Professional
Donoso S,Claudia
Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexiones
description Currently, the Ebola virus has been classified by the WHO as “an international public health emergency” that has highlighted among other things, the enormous importance of proper and timely medical care. However, the complexity of this new health scenario, mainly due to personal risk in the event of infection, means that professionals are directly faced with situations of great ethical conflict since there is a competition between their duties to patients, colleagues, society and those directed to their own safety. The reasons given by those professionals who respond positively to the duties of their patients have been categorized into three items, namely: professional ethics, the need to help and work ethics. The philosophical foundations of these responses find their roots in the compassion and sense of responsibility that arise when we face helplessness.
author Donoso S,Claudia
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title Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexiones
title_short Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexiones
title_full Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexiones
title_fullStr Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexiones
title_full_unstemmed Frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del Ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: Algunas reflexiones
title_sort frente a la amenaza de la enfermedad del ébola…¿por qué permanecer en servicio?: algunas reflexiones
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