Features of the ethics of surgical activities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.29296/25877305-2020-10-01
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2020

E. Piatenko; A. Vasin; Professor N. Krylov, MD I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical
University (Sechenov University)

The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the application of General medical ethics in surgical practice and to identify special moral and ethical problems of surgical activity, as well as to find ways to overcome particular ethical problems, both to improve communication with patients and within the medical team, where the surgeon remains the Central and responsible person. A special ethic of surgery is formed by non-trivial relationships between those who receive surgical care and those who conduct it. Understanding the nature of these features and the depth of these relationships allows us to understand the causes of vulnerability and vulnerability of our patients and, perhaps, to understand their own problems.
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biomedical ethics
surgical activity

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