Medical responsibility and implications for clinical practice

Abstract

This article aims to provide contingency and epistemological elements to locate and discuss, within the history of medicine, the question of responsibility in clinical medicine. Grounded in authors such as Foucault, Canguilhem, Scliar and Engelhardt, Jr., the issue of medical liability and its ethics is examined in the context of the requirements of scientific discourse, and especially in the context of current clinical practice. The findings of the literature review point to the clinical importance of listening in medical practice as a major benchmark for considerations of medical liability and the care dimension from a perspective that is not restricted to diagnostic practice. As it distances itself from the clinical medicine is in danger of losing what is essential in its work with each individual clinical practice for each case.