M1: Personal & Social Responsibility Flashcards
Conduct bearing
Comporment
An expert who is a master in a specific field
Professional
Involves connecting or binding participants
Relationship
We will talk about conduct, bearing and connecting with others of ourselves as experts in the field of medicine.
Theme
Primary responsibility for a person’s health rests on the individual, not on the community. We maintain the intensely personal character of health in all its dimensions.
Commitments to Life
Main ethical principle for HC ethics
Preserve & Maintain one’s own health
Doctor practices what he preaches
Principle of Integrity
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
Emphasis on regimen
Regimen, Medicine & Surgery
Human beings remain responsible to the creator. To use their own initiative and originality in completing God’s work of creation.
Stewardship
The value placed upon systemic knowledge & intellect
Knowing
The value placed upon technical skill and trained capacity
Doing
The value placed upon putting the conjoint knowledge and skill to work in the service of others. Most important, value of rendering services to others.
Helping
Mantra of medicine
To serve
Operational attributes of a profession by
Moore & Rosenblum
An enduring set of normative and behavioral expectations
Commitment to a calling
Measured only by what professionals need to live and work without distractions.
Stipend
Strive to establish and preserve trust at both emotional and rational levels. Share info with those who legitimately need it in order to have an informed conscience. Refrain from lying or giving misinformation.
Professional communication
Must be maintained even if patient died according to Hippocrates code
Patient confidentiality
One of the most known Greek medical texts. Requires a new physician to swear upon a number of healing gods that he will uphold a number of professional ethical standards.
Oath of Hippocrates
Declaration of physician’s dedication to the humanitarian goals of medicine, a declaration that was especially important in view of the medical crimes which had just been committed in Nazi Germany.
Declaration of Geneva
