Examinando por Autor "Rojas O., Alberto"

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    Algunas amenazas actuales a la confidencialidad en medicina
    (2015) Echeverria, 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
    Social, technical and legal conditions of the current practice of medicine make it necessary to insist on certain actions and circumstances that may jeopardize the confidentiality of information, offered by patients to their health providers. Therefore, some effects of the current Chilean law are analyzed in this respect, regarding access to data from the clinical record of a patient. Also, the risks of putting certain data on social networking sites are analyzed, as well as some of its effects on clinical practice. The reasons because of mandatory reporting of diseases, meaning danger to public health, is allowed, are mentioned. We also discuss the difficulties involved in managing the results of preventative health screenings and its knowledge by third parties, as well as some possible violations of personal privacy, regarding dissemination of some people health information and its further mention or figuration in mass media. We conclude that it is a must for both physicians and other health team members, to safeguard confidentiality of data to which they have had access, as well as the need to know the relevant law, in order to respect human dignity of patients, each one as a person. We address the attention to the possibility that, practicing in a different way, it could endanger the reliability of clinical records, also impairing the quality of people’s health care. (Rev Med Chile 2015; 143: 358-366) Key words: Access to Information; Confidentiality; Information Dissemination; Medical Records; Social Networking
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    Consideraciones acerca de la “interrupción voluntaria del embarazo”, desde el punto de vista ético-médico (a propósito de un proyecto de ley)
    (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015-11) Echeverría B., Carlos; Serani M., Alejandro; Arriagada U., Ana María; Goic G., Alejandro; Herrera C., Carolina; Quintana V., Carlos; Rojas O., Alberto; Ruiz-Esquide, Gonzalo; Salinas R., Rodrigo; Taboada R., Paulina; Vacarezza Y., Ricardo
    “Voluntary termination of pregnancy” can refer to actions intended to make a delivery easier, to provide medical care to the fetus, or to protect the life or health of the mother. All of these are proper medical actions and are by definition voluntary. In other cases, the expression denotes a termination of pregnancy before the embryo or fetus is viable, leading to the death of the latter. This action is constitutive of abortion under current Chilean law. The product of conception living being, who develops in the womb during pregnancy, is an individual, both in the sense that it is different from its mother and father, and in that it is a biological individual. For these reasons, such living being constitutes another patient in itself. The free and voluntary medical action of health care professionals is geared toward disease prevention or health recovery and medical terminations of pregnancy, as distinguished from abortion, are not criminalized in our country. Therefore, the idea of legalizing abortive terminations of pregnancy so that they become “legitimate health care services” is a call to the medical community, which should engage in a debate about the meaning and consequences of an eventual mandate of the State that would be at odds with the Hippocratic tradition. A woman can feel that her health is at risk due to her pregnancy, and she certainly has the right to request medical help. Health professionals should care both at the medical and emotional level for all those who require their services, especially when such persons are undergoing situations of vulnerability and distress. When requested to perform an abortion, the physician faces dilemmas that should be addressed in line with the present state of the medical art.
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    "Curriculum oculto" en medicina: una reflexión docente
    (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2012-09) Rojas O., Alberto
    Background: Medical education must ascribe to a curriculum but clinical teaching poses special difficulties that go beyond any programming attempt. Attitudes and skills learned during tutored clinical practice are called the "hidden curriculum". The figure and personal features of the teacher, his environment and the atmosphere that projects every particular medical school, are essential to shape the characteristics of the student. Paradoxically, it is almost impossible to measure the impact of this hidden curriculum. This article is a reflection on an issue that is acquiring special relevance in medical education.
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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.