Medical ethics+Law

moral principles for registered medical practitioners in their dealings with each other, their patients and state

Medical ethics

Duties of medical practitioners towards state

1. Notification of infectious diseases
2. Notice to police
3. Notification of births and deaths
4. Issuing of certificates
5. Respond to emergency military services

Conditions of privileged
communication

1. Infectious diseases
2. Venereal diseases
3. Employers & employees
4. Notifiable diseases
5. Suspected crime
6. Patient’s own interest
7. In courts of law

usually refers to the mental competencies that are needed for ahuman to make rational decisions

Capacity

This condition emphasizes that the information given to the patient, who is supposed to take a decision, is given in a thorough, yet simple  and understandable way and that the person is given the chance to have   his/her questions answered in a satisfactory way

Disclosure

What has to be fulfilled in autonomy?

Capacity - Disclosure - Voluntariness

What is beneficence?

Harm compared to benefits.

Competencies Required for Practice

1. Professional

2. Collaborator

3. Communicator

4. Manager

5. Health Advocate

6. Scholar

is the innate human right of a patient to control access to his/her body and what is done to him or her.

Autonomy

physician assumes that he knows what is best for the patient and should make treatment decisions without reference to the patient

Paternalism