Can you name the 4 core pillars of medical ethics? You need to know these whether you are a patient, caretaker/parent or a doctor/clinician.
Everyone needs to know these, either to deliver them or to receive them.
Take a quick moment to recite the 4 core pillars of medical ethics:
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If you are a doctor/clinician, then you need to know the 4 core pillars of medical ethics on a first-nature or second-nature basis.
I won’t be so pedantic as to say that these have to be reviewed/recited for every treatment with every patient encounter; certainly by the time most trainees are in clinical rounds these considerations have become automatized. But we have to stay anchored to ethics otherwise we can drift away into egocentric/profiteering/hegemonic/unethical clinical practice which eventually dis-serves our patients and leaves us functioning as nothing more than a cog in the medical machinery. See my article “We are Unhappily Lost at Sea and We must Swim Back to the Shore of Medical Ethics” (IJHNFM 2019) also included by the direct link immediately below:
If you are a patient or patient caretaker/parent/representative, then you need to know the 4 core pillars of medical ethics in order to ensure that you/yours receive appropriate healthcare that is beneficial, safe, respectful of your choices/autonomy, and the most reasonable among the choices available.
If you are a patient or patient caretaker/parent/representative, then you need to know the 4 core pillars of medical ethics in order to ensure that you and/or your charge1 receive appropriate healthcare that is beneficial, safe, respectful of your choices/autonomy, and the most reasonable among the choices available.
I’ve recently reviewed these 4 pillars in video and essay format, and you can also see them summarized/excerpted from a popular textbook that most doctors have used in preparation for the USMLE (United State Medical Licensing Exam) which is required for all physicians practicing in the United States.
a person or thing committed into the care of another https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/charge#synonyms