Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
J Med Ethics. 2010 Apr;36(4):255-6. doi: 10.1136/jme.2009.033506.
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether or not strong values might influence physicians' estimations of future events. In an empirical study about physicians' attitudes towards physician assisted suicide (PAS) we asked about the physicians' main reasons for being pro, doubtful or contra PAS and also asked them to estimate what would happen with patients' trust if PAS were to be legally accepted in Swedish society. Finally we asked the physicians about their own trust in healthcare in the event of PAS being legally accepted. We found that in contrast to those who were pro PAS and doubtful, the group who were against PAS did not discriminate between their own opinion and their estimation of what they thought might happen with patients' trust in the future. Against the backdrop of the present study, we present a hypothesis maintaining that feeling strongly against controversial medical procedures is associated with being inclined to let one's own beliefs influence our capacity to interpret and estimate empirical results. We think this hypothesis merits closer examination.
本研究旨在探讨强烈的价值观是否会影响医生对未来事件的估计。在一项关于医生对医生协助自杀（PAS）态度的实证研究中，我们询问了医生支持、怀疑或反对 PAS 的主要原因，并要求他们估计如果 PAS 在瑞典社会被合法接受，患者的信任会发生什么变化。最后，我们询问了医生如果 PAS 被合法接受，他们对医疗保健的信任会如何。我们发现，与支持 PAS 和持怀疑态度的医生相比，反对 PAS 的医生并没有将自己的意见与他们对未来患者信任可能发生的情况的估计区分开来。在本研究的背景下，我们提出了一个假设，即强烈反对有争议的医疗程序与倾向于让自己的信念影响我们解释和估计经验结果的能力有关。我们认为这个假设值得进一步研究。
