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Aids And Physician’s Duty To Treat
Dr. Nermin ERSOYa
aLepra Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi, İstanbul Üniversitesi İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi, İSTANBUL
AIDS and HIV infection causes to increase the social, legal and ethical issues. The problems accumulated on physician’s duty to treat of AIDS patients. Thus, it was provided to reconsider of the profession’s philosophical foundation.
The individual who has suffering and fatal outcome disease have to wish a right to treat. Three generic questions are addressed. First, is there a moral obligations that compels physicians to treat patients with HIV infections even at risk to themselves? Second, if there is such a duty, in that ways, if any is it modified by the universally fatal outcome of this disease? And third, how does a diagnosis of HIV infection affect treatment decisions.
We should to argument from different perspectives a philosophical foundation for the physician’s obligation to treat any patient, AIDS patients included, for to give some respons to three questions: (1) professional ethics, (2) traditions of the profession, (3) the character of the physician, (4) general ethical principles, (5) socially defined roles, and (6) the internal morality of medicine. Taken together, however, these are assert certain ideas for physician’s duty to treat.Keywords: AIDS, physician’s duty to treat, professional ethicsTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 1994,2:22-25
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