Ethical considerations about contemporary medicine: a punctual reflection

Abstract

The present work has as its objective to reflect about the relation between the classic ethical fundaments of the medical profession, expressed by means of personal contact and essential care for the other, and the new evidence-based era of medicine, supported by high technology. It presents punctual considerations about the changes that occurred in the latest decades, evidencing the extent to which the human contact between professional and patient is little by little ceasing to be an essential aspect in this relationship. It concludes by appealing for changes in physician’s professional and personal training, in the sense of rescuing the guiding parameters of the humanistic practices in medicine.