Browsing by Subject "Ethics"
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(Sociedad Médica Santiago, 2020)Telemedicine partially resolved inequalities in access to health care, especially in geographical areas with a low number of doctors and in places with absent or insufficient specialists. Currently, Chile has a National ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario Estudios Bioética, 2016)This study shows the inapplicability of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) to all the cases of therapeutic abortion (TA). The causes of the maternal risk define cases that cannot be included in the DDE. When it is not the ...
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(Sociedad Médica Santiago, 2020)The discussion of a bill that allows medically assisted death (MAD) in Chile, revived the debate about the ethics of this practice. The Department of Ethics of the Chilean Medical Association herein analyzes arguments in ...
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(2013)Providing information to patients and relatives (IPAR) is a clinical, ethical and legal need. IPAR is inherent to the medical team work as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are. In some cases, it is a key step for ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)� 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. For several years and in many different ways, medical errors have been studied. As expected, the majority of efforts have been directed to prevent clinical errors ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2016)For several years and in many different ways, medical errors have been studied. As expected, the majority of efforts have been directed to prevent clinical errors during the different phases of health care. Nevertheless, ...
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(2009)Creating and copying are two different processes; we must not confuse creativity with plagiarism. However, this distinction is problematic, because there is no possibility of creating from scratch, this implies that any ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2008-05)Plagiarism is defined as the intellectual fraud in which an individual attempts to unduly appropriate, for his/her own benefit, the knowledge, ideas or discoveries of someone else. It is not uncommon in academic settings ...
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(Springer, 2020)The interdisciplinary field of neurorobotics looks to neuroscience to overcome the limitations of modern robotics technology, to robotics to advance our understanding of the neural system's inner workings, and to information ...
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(Wiley, 2021)Organ transplantation is a lifesaving procedure for end-organ damage and remains up to today as the most cost-effective alternative to treat these conditions. However, the main limitation to performing organ transplants ...
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(2011)Right to life -as the prohibition of intentionally and arbitrarily taking life, even with authorization of the concerned one- is an internationally recognized right. In many countries, debate regarding euthanasia is more ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2014)© 2014, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. The welfare of research participants must be guaranteed by international ethical standards. This article communicates the procedures of the Research Ethics Committee ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2020)On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the number of cases of COVID-19 multiplied by 13 outside China, with a threefold increase in the number of affected countries. The WHO expressed its ...
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(2009)The neuro-scientific study of moral actions and judgments is particularly relevant to medicine, especially when assessing behavior disorders secondary to brain diseases. In this paper, moral behavior is reviewed from an ...
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(2010)This article was developed after the authors heard young plastic surgeons of their unit ask what attribute makes people want to follow a leader. What people most seek to find in a leader has been constant over time and ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, 2017)Objetivo: Describir las frecuencias y características del proceso de Limitación de Tratamiento de Soporte Vital (LTSV) en pacientes de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos (UCI) entre 2004- 2014. Pacientes y ...
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(2009)We want to define what we understand as a conflict of interests and its influence upon the relationship doctor-patient when ill managed. We offer antecedents that allow us to infer that the fundamental conflict in the ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2018)© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. When prescribing a treatment, the physician should give truthful information about the likely benefits and the potential adverse effects, allowing the patient to ...
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(2008)Plagiarism is defined as the intellectual fraud in which an individual attempts to unduly appropriate, for his/her own benefit, the knowledge, ideas or discoveries of someone else. It is not uncommon in academic settings ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved. The Chilean bill that regulates abortion for three cases (Bulletin N° 9895-11) includes the possibility that health professionals may manifest their conscientious ...
