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PubMed1979

The nature of confidentiality.

This paper examines confidentiality and its nature and analyses the guidelines laid down by the Hippocratic Oath as well as the British and World Medical Associations for maintaining such confidentiality between doctor and patient. There are exceptions to practically any code of rules and this is true also for confidentiality. Some of these exceptions make it appear that very little is confidential. The three values implicit in confidentiality would seem to be privacy, confidence and secrecy. Each of these values is discussed and developed in this paper. In conclusion, the question is suggested that maybe in the face of death, doctor and patient need to re-examine the pre-suppositions of privacy, confidence and secrecy on which the confidential relationship is based.

Attitude↗
PubMed1978

Incest and the family physician.

This paper is a review of incest from epidemiologic, familial, and individual points of view. The incest taboo has characterized almost every culture and society throughout the ages. Respect for the incest barrier is a cultural demand made by society and is not a physiological or biological imperative. Overt incest occurs in a dysfunctional family through tension-reducing "acting out." The family physician is in a unique position to observe and understand the family dynamics which both help maintain defenses against the incestuous wishes as well as, in some families, contribute to the practice of incest. For 2,000 years physicians have taken the Hippocratic oath, with its explicit love relationship clause, as a reminder of their ethical responsibilities towards their patients. Examples of para-incestuous relationships between vulnerable individuals and authoritative helping figures are cited. A psychodynamic rationale is offered as to why sexual relationships between patients and their family physicians are not therapeutically beneficial. Clues for assessment and ten preventive measures are presented to enable physicians to monitor themselves and the families in their practice.

Acting Out↗
PubMed1976

[Continuity and change in medical ethos (author's transl)].

The report develops first of all a general concept of ethos and categories for comprehending its structure [2]. Classical hippocratic ethos then emerges as a "modell" which medical treatment standardizes as a matter of "practical" science-oriented values in the service of the "private" welfare of the patient [3]. The will, under changing conditions of medical practice, to permanently engage the substance of the ethos, demands a) consciousness of the "practical" character of the misunderstanding of medicine as a theoretical physical science, b) recognition of the importance of the "private" doctor-patient relationship vs. the widening of a purely social objective, c) orientation to the whole needs of the patient in opposition to a technologically created "depersonalization".

Ethics, Medical↗