Examinando por Autor "Burrows, Jaime"

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    Dimensión ética en la organización de la atención de salud
    (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2013-06) Burrows, Jaime; Echeverría B., Carlos; Goic G., Alejandro; Herrera C., Carolina; Quintana V., Carlos; Rojas O., Alberto; Salinas R., Rodrigo; Serani M., Alejandro; Taboada R., Paulina; Vacarezza, Ricardo
    Health Care at population level is a complex problem. Having this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the goods that are ethically relevant in the process of caring for health at this level. We briefly analyze some of the Chilean health statistics that, although they show important improvements along the years, demonstrate that certain conditions are to be deemed as inadequate by both healthcare providers and patients. Ethics is a central component to determine how to structure and organize health care systems and how they should operate. We emphasize Human Dignity as an ethical corner stone of the Health Care System, along with other important values such as Justice and Humanization, under the scope of the Ends of Medicine, and other components such as technical competence of providers and the financing of the whole process. We conclude that as far as a health care system is organized in a way that medical practice is well ordered, primarily and fundamentally according the Ends of Medicine and the good of persons, such a health care system is ethically adequate.
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    El respeto a la intimidad del paciente
    (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014-04) Burrows, Jaime; Echeverría B., Carlos; Goic G., Alejandro; Herrera C., Carolina; Quintana V., Carlos; Rojas O., Alberto; Ruiz-Esquide, Gonzalo; Salinas R., Rodrigo; Serani M., Alejandro; Taboada R., Paulina; Vacarezza Y., Ricardo
    Transparency as a general rule for all our professional acts casts doubts about the statement of the Hippocratic Oath that says "Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private". Medical secrecy protects the intimacy of patients, who reveal to their physicians their most hidden secrets aiming to recover their health. Therefore, physicians should receive those secrets with reverence and care, as servers and not as their owners. The values associated with the respect for personal intimacy are the anthropological basis of medical confidentiality. A medical act is performed by definition between two equally honorable individuals. Therefore, the professional honors the trust of his patient, maintaining strict confidence of what is revealed. Therefore, medical secrecy must be strengthened rather than weakened, pursuing common wealth and dignity.