Medical Responsibility as Moral and Ethical Foundation for the Professional Conduit

摘要

The diversity of the contemporary medical act and the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship require, due to their position in the centre of healthcare services, a profound and exhaustive analysis in several domains of the medical practice, from the point of view of professional responsibility. Thus, the unification and shaping, in accordance with the principles of ethics, of the information from the field of medical education, social environment and health policies will create common points of view which will enable the visualization and design of solutions for public health issues. This paper aims for a unified approach on certain key aspects of medical professional responsibility, represented by competence , conscientiousness , prudence and devotion , investigated from the point of view of ethical principles and associated moral values, beyond the standards of clinical practice.