The duty of being a medical conservative. When in doubt, for the patient.
Recenti Prog Med
; 110(5): 212-214, 2019 05.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31140452
Recently, John Mandrola et al. established the tenets of medical conservativism. We endorse this approach to patient care, and we believe that, in order to have this perspective incorporated into medical reasoning, the foundations for being medical conservatives should be taught since medical school. In this Perspective, through an analogy between medicine's and criminal law's approaches to uncertainty, we suggest that the precautionary principle of in dubio pro reo could be adapted to medicine as a decisional strategy for medical conservatives. This principle would represent a cognitive and decisional filter that allows physicians to counterbalance the currently widespread propensity toward interventions with a conservative and precautionary attitude.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Physicians
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Delivery of Health Care
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Patient Care
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Recenti Prog Med
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
Italy