Principios del derecho médico

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to provide the health professional with a pedagogical guide on those guiding principles on which medical activity is developed in its constant and direct relationship with the patient. In an organized and schematic way, those preferential and mandatory principles by health personnel are highlighted, seeking to contribute to the correct development of the profession and maximum satisfaction for the user (patient); in addition to the lower rate of claims and investigations for institutional and professional responsibility. Particular emphasis is given to the ethical principles of the profession, to the principles of the relationship between the health professional and the patient and to the principles that correspond to quality in the provision of the service. Addressing the guiding principles of medical law in three particularities generates in the reader the tranquility of contemplating three different episodes, which is why, when differentiating them, the health professional will appropriate each one taking into account their vocation, their spirit of service and the Social rules duly considered for the welfare of the patient and public health in general. The doctor, the specialist, the therapist, the instructor, the nurse, the assistant and even the lawyer and the psychologist (lawyer, psychologist in palliative care) are obliged to respect these postulates, in addition to assuming each of them in their daily management as an integral part of the patient's direct and indirect care with respect to his family (palliative care)