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Bioethics:VIRTUES and VICES
OBJECTIVE
Identify virtues of a health care provider in the context of the goals of medicine
Goals of Medicine
Promote health, prevent disease Alleviate pain and suffering Cure disease Improve/maintain function Prevent untimely death Education of the patient and family Do not harm
VIRTUES OF THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL
Acquired habits or dispositions to do what is morally right
Traits of character
FIDELITY
Faithfulness to trust and promise
HEALTHCARE
Patient Advocate
Keep patient’s best interest first in mind
Intend one’s good
(benevolence)
Avoid conflict of interest
RESEARCH
Research participant and public advocate
Respect dignity of man
- seek good
- avoid harm
- informed consent
Provide truth to the public
HONESTY
Truthfulness and integrity
TRUTHFULNESS
Good faith intent to convey the truth, both in words and conduct, to others, as best one knows it
Truth telling
-diagnosis, prognosis,
benefits, burdens, etc Research
- publishing accurate
findings
- acknowledge
contributors
- cite source of support
INTEGRITY
- being true to one self or wholeness
- congruence between belief’s, words and
actions
- making choices in line with one’s values
HUMILITY
Recognizing one’s capabilities and limitations
Accepting deserved praise and denying
undeserved praise
COMPASSION
Feeling for the loss/suffering of another
Self-sacrifice, given voluntarily for the benefit of another
Compassionate competent care is the essence of the healing profession
Listening to patient’s anxiety
Telling bad news kindly
Reducing burdens for research subjects
COURAGE
Doing what is right without undue fear
Resoluteness, heroism
PRUDENCE
Habitual deliberateness, caution
and circumspection in action
Foresight
JUSTICE
Constant will to give another his due
VICES
PRIDE
Inordinate self-esteem, conceit
Superiority over others
GREED
Inordinate acquisitiveness
Acknowledgement
MILAGROS F. NERI, MD,MA,MPHDepartment of Community & Family Medicine
Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
Fairview, Quezon City, Philippines
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