Nuovi scenari di cura nella medicina tecnologica: cronicità della malattia e la sua evoluzione
Published: August 30, 2011
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Dottore in Giurisprudenza, Italy.
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The progress achieved in all fields of medicine does not longer raise clinical issues only, but also ethical ones. The instruments that science offers lead us to think not only about the clinical validity of the choice of therapy and the process to deal with, but also about the opportunity of undertake it, the proportionality of intervention and the actual benefits. Hardly a good solution seems to be good to others, because, in the analysis of a social comparison, the medical profession is always compared with various points of view. Medical ethic considers the individual as a person and a subject whose rights and decisions regarding its life, are binding. The evolution of scientific research has completely unsettled the phase of gradual transition to the end of life, bringing it to a relevant protraction of the average lifespan, even in case of degenerative condition, suggesting the approach to disease with instruments able to strike a balance, even when therapies don't bring to healing. The goal to achieve is the care for the patient, to pursue his personal interest in all the phases of a chronic pathology resorting to the most up-to-date medical approaches, to take the best of patient's psychophysical resources but with a correct and ethical resource management too. The approach to the patient does not include the healing only, but the care of patient's state of mind, because a careless approach would increase patient's malaise, his feelings of loneliness and pain. The relation with a sick person often includes a team of medics co-operating with patient's family, pursuing an ideal of humanized medical assistance, because sometimes a patient needs empathy and comprehension beyond medical therapy. The quality-of-life evaluation or the different health condition, is utterly subjective: every single person is absolutely unique, with his value system and his choices reflecting his dignity even when, often, approaching a point of no return.
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