Per una medicina centrata sul paziente: riflessioni sulla fondazione etica del rapporto medico-paziente
Published: June 30, 2005
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Authors
Professore Ordinario di Bioetica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
Dottoranda di Ricerca in Bioetica, Facoltà di Medicina
e Chirurgia "A. Gemelli", Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
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More and more frequently physician is required to justify his own decisions in accordance whit the goals and the important values of medicine. In a medicine really centred on patient, the goal of medical activity is the realization of the good of the patient, by acting not only according to health, but whit the whole being of patient, considering him for the value, endless, that is to him really. Such an anthropological conception implicates, to a practical level, that it is never allowed discrimination of the person - to treat him or her according to different criterions than those deriving from his or her nature -, the exploitation - to use him or her for other ends than proper good - and the oppression - to act towards him or her mortifying his or her autonomy and liberty. In a medicine centred on patient, the physician-patient relationship is not a tool of medical activity but the place in which medical activity comes true. The medicine is the physician-patient relationship, a relationship between two persons, asymmetrical, defined not only by the identification of the roles, but by singling out a common objective. Physician-patient relationship doesn't mean simple relationship, but it implicates a real community, concept that recalls an interaction between the parts, or better, a sharing. At the base of a good physician-patient relationship we identify at least three factors: the recognition of the other as a person, the construction of a true and appropriate therapeutic alliance, the acceptance of the respective roles. In conclusion, the exercise of the medical profession cannot leave the reflection on what its purposes are out of consideration and, above all, an anthropological conception of what the man is because we behave to the patient in conformity with it.
How to Cite
Carrasco De Paula, I., & Comoretto, N. (2005). Per una medicina centrata sul paziente: riflessioni sulla fondazione etica del rapporto medico-paziente. Medicina E Morale, 54(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2005.390
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