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    Surgical Ethics: Maj. Hafiz

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    Ethics is an essential discipline for surgeons that establishes their moral obligations to patients. Key issues in surgical ethics include respecting patient autonomy through informed consent, maintaining confidentiality, conducting ethical research, and providing good standards of care through proper training and education. Surgeons must represent their patients' best interests, respect patients' right to make their own healthcare decisions, protect private patient information, only participate in approved research, and ensure they offer specialized treatments they are qualified for through ongoing learning.

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    Ethics is an essential discipline for surgeons that establishes their moral obligations to patients. Key issues in surgical ethics include respecting patient autonomy through informed consent, maintaining confidentiality, conducting ethical research, and providing good standards of care through proper training and education. Surgeons must represent their patients' best interests, respect patients' right to make their own healthcare decisions, protect private patient information, only participate in approved research, and ensure they offer specialized treatments they are qualified for through ongoing learning.

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    Ethics is an essential discipline for surgeons that establishes their moral obligations to patients. Key issues in surgical ethics include respecting patient autonomy through informed consent, maintaining confidentiality, conducting ethical research, and providing good standards of care through proper training and education. Surgeons must represent their patients' best interests, respect patients' right to make their own healthcare decisions, protect private patient information, only participate in approved research, and ensure they offer specialized treatments they are qualified for through ongoing learning.

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    The key takeaways are that ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society, and establishes obligations and duties between people. Surgical ethics represents a surgeon's understanding of moral responsibility and evolves through clinical experience.

    The main principles of surgical ethics are autonomy, informed consent, confidentiality, and acting as the patient's fiduciary.

    The main issues regarding informed consent are fully informing the patient about their condition, risks and benefits of treatment, alternatives, and obtaining consent in a suitable environment and language for the patient to make their own decision.

    Surgical Ethics

    Maj. hafiz
    Ethics
     The word ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos
    which means “ character “.
     To put it formally, ethics is the branch of philosophy
    that defines what is good for the individual and for
    society and establishes the nature of obligations, or
    duties, that people owe themselves and one another.
    Surgical Ethics
    Ethics is an essential discipline in the practice of
    surgery.
     Represents your best understanding of moral
    responsibility.
     Evolves as reasoned reflection on clinical experience.
     Role of the Surgeon is to act as the patient’s fiduciary .
    (person to whom property or power is grunted)
    Issues of surgical ethics
    -Surgical Ethics
     Autonomy
     Informed consent & difficulties
     Confidentiality
     Surgical research
     Good standards
    Autonomy
    ORespect the autonomy of patients & their ability to
    make choices about their treatments.
    It recognizes rights of patients to self- determination.
    So patients have right to make choices over their
    surgical care.
     Respect for autonomy is the basis for informed
    consent
    Informed consent
    what are the Information?
     Explanation of the patient’s disease
     Explanation of untreated natural history
    Recommendation of most appropriate surgery
     Discussion of risks and benefits
     Anticipated outcome – prognosis
     Treatment alternatives .
    Consent
    principles
     Venue – calm & quite place
     Consent form – Pt’s language
     Time – take own decision
     Principal person – Surgeon
     Entry – case record .
    Confidentiality
    The principle of confidentiality is that the information
    a patient reveals to a surgeon is private and has limits
    on how and when it can be disclosed to a third party.
    The patient (and the person treating the patient) have
    right to dignity.
    Breaking confidentiality
    - If the patient is threat to self or others
    - Other team members
    – improving treatment options
    - Public interest
    Research
    Surgeons have a subsidiary responsibility to improve
    operative techniques through research, to assure their
    patients that the care proposed is best.
     The administration of such regulation is through
    research ethics committees, and surgeons should not
    participate in research that has not been approved by
    such bodies.
    Good Standards
    To optimise success in protecting life and health to an
    acceptable standard, surgeons must only offer
    specialised treatment in which they have been
    properly trained.
     To do so will entail sustained further education
    throughout a surgeon’s career in the wake of new
    surgical procedures.
     To do otherwise would be to place the interest of the
    surgeon above that of their patient, an imbalance that
    is never morally or professionally

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