Medical ethics is a discipline that uses ethical principles to solve medical moral problems and medical moral phenomena in the process of medical and health practice and medical development. It is an important part of medicine and a branch of ethics. Medical ethics is a science that uses the theory and method of ethics to study the moral problems of the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature in the medical field.
Medical ethics comes from the particularity of doctor-patient relationship in medical work. Patients rely on the professional knowledge and skills of medical staff when seeking medical treatment, and cannot judge the quality of medical treatment. Telling some of their privacy to medical staff means that patients should trust medical staff.
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Related contents of medical ethics:
1. The principle of respecting the autonomy of patients or subjects requires medical personnel or researchers to obtain the informed consent of the former before conducting experiments or experiments. Before making a decision to accept the experiment, the subjects should know the nature, duration, purpose, methods and means of the experiment; The possible inconvenience and harm, as well as the possible impact on his health and personal.
2. Require medical staff to help patients not only subjectively and motivated, but also objectively and effectively, and not to hurt patients, that is, they are obliged not to hurt patients intentionally or through negligence.
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