Kwiatkowski Waldemar
Department of Bioethics, Medical University of Lodz, Lindleya 6, 90-131, Lodz, Poland.
Med Health Care Philos. 2018 Jun;21(2):197-205. doi: 10.1007/s11019-017-9788-8.
The introduction of the modern diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to the medical practice provided a new challenge for the medicine. The art of medicine, with its default purpose of acting for the benefit of health, is therefore required to derive from technological progress effectively and rationally. As a result, the medical ethics has been engaged with the rules of economy and management of deficit medical procedures as well as their rational and fair distribution. The above suggests, that medics, given these recourses, should approach each patient with a consideration to their therapeutic rights. However, the physicians cannot just concentrate on the good of one particular patient, but must take into account joint responsibility for the good of a potential patient. This makes medical ethical dilemmas similar to the ethical issues of business. The notion of responsibility is the key for discriminating these two kinds of ethics.
现代诊断和治疗程序引入医学实践给医学带来了新挑战。医学艺术以促进健康为其默认宗旨，因此需要有效地、合理地从技术进步中汲取力量。结果，医学伦理学涉及医疗程序的经济规则、管理以及这些程序的合理公平分配。上述情况表明，鉴于这些资源，医务人员在对待每位患者时应考虑其治疗权利。然而，医生不能只专注于某一位特定患者的利益，而必须考虑到对潜在患者利益的共同责任。这使得医学伦理困境类似于商业伦理问题。责任概念是区分这两种伦理的关键。
