Are We Clinicians Away from Ethics? (original) (raw)

Journal of Cardiac Critical Care TSS

Medicine has always stood at the intersection between science and society. From antiquity to the present, everyone has faced health challenges that prompted the formation of groups of healers and the development of codes of ethics to govern the treatments that they offered. Medical codes of ethics blend the moral precepts, normative behavior, and social duties of the population in which they are used, and they change as new medical therapies and social issues arise. The written codes of ethics are based on modern terms for many of the issues raised in Charak Samhita. They also represent an effort to codify the essence of “the clinical encounter between physician and patient” and the role of society while emphasizing the importance of compassion, beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for persons, and accountability. Medical ethics have been an integral part of Charak Samhita and its complete incorporation in present-day medical teaching and clinical practice will yield great results t...

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