Ética médica en la práctica actual de la medicina

Abstract

A brief analysis is made on the deterioration of medical practice today due to the introduction of mercantilist institutions as major and mainly profit-oriented intermediaries between patients and physicians. Face to this deterioration, it is asserted and strengthened again that the essence of both medical vacation and the physicians' work in particular, as for any and all professions in the field of health, is serving the human being under the inspiration of individual-oriented and personalized ethics emerging from the recognition of that human being's absolute, unconditional and unconditioned dignity.

For this very reason, the good expected to be found in all medical actions must benefit those who entrust the care of their lives to us, instead of devolving upon society, or the State, or the intermediary mercantilist entities.

These ideals and principles have not changed; and they should not change by effect of positive laws, since this would tergiversate the very foundations of the medical vocation: a vocation that binds us with our professional duties in search of the 'Full well-being" of patients, which means assuming an ethical responsibility for our actions with no hesitation whatsoever, or because we are being intimidated by external pressures. We cannot go on excusing negligence in the performance of any such duties on the grounds of the failures of a medical attention system that, not to say always, however in most cases, ignores the dignity of both the patient and the medical doctor.