La proposta del nuovo Codice di Deontologia Medica Per quale medico? Per quale medicina?
Published: February 28, 2014
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Professore Associato in Medicina e delle Assicurazioni, Direttore della Scuola di Specializzazione in Medicina Legale e della Assicurazioni, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
Psichiatra, Docente a contratto presso la scuola di Specializzazione in Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
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In Italy the rules of professional conduct for doctors are going to change. Over the last decade the "Federazione degli Ordini dei Medici" has approved more than four different editions of the professional code and, last June, a new version was submitted. In spite of the lively debate the text that has been proposed does not give any detail about the asymmetric relationship between doctor and patient, the use of the always limited financial resources and their employment; what is more the moral aspect of the medical conduct is not dealt with. The medical conduct is not only a technical skill as suggested in the code (where the relationship doc/patient seems to get poorer) but something deeper and more complex and, calling patients in a different way (i.e. assisted person) is not enough and doesn't help. Unfortunately, lately, the trend has been to reduce the relationship between doctor and patient to a simple technical skill. The new code seems to forget that the aim of clinical ethics is to improve the quality of patient care by identifying, analysing and attempting to solve the ethical problems that rise in practise. Medical ethics has not to be analysed only in terms of obligations between a single physician and a single patient because, as a matter of fact, doctors have an obligation to their patients as well as to their community. The new code has completely neglected the moral responsibilities of the profession inside a their moral community, as a group dedicated to a common set of moral precepts. To sum up, in the last submitted edition there are several critical points which are worth of attention. The Italian physicians should identify the obligations, values, rules of their professional conduct and, at the same time, keep in mind the buried roots from which the medical profession conduct has grown. Only in this way the still living philosophy of medicine will be kept in adequate consideration and will help to give a better welfare.
How to Cite
Scorretti, C., & Ventre, L. (2014). La proposta del nuovo Codice di Deontologia Medica Per quale medico? Per quale medicina?. Medicina E Morale, 63(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2014.68
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