Ética y humanismo médicos/Medical ethics and humanism

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Comportamiento de médico y sus modales a la cabecera: la influencia de William Osler y la escuela de medicina de Johns Hokins Physician behavior and bedside manners: the influence of William Osler and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Silverman BD. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2012 Jan;25(1):58-61 The practice of medicine changes with time as we develop better techniques for diagnosis and improved therapies for treatment. The art of medicine remains constant over the millennia because human nature is unchanging. Patients bring fear, anxiety, and self-pity into the exam room. It has always been the doctor's responsibility to calm their fears and provide hope. The accomplished doctor has a bedside manner that is humane and compassionate, empathetic and supportive. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246857/pdf/bumc0025-0058.pdf   Representación de las cualidades negativas de un médico como una herramienta de enseñanza posible en la ética médica y el humanismo: Viaje al fin de la noche de Louis-Ferdinand Celine.  Portrayal of negative qualities in a doctor as a potential teaching tool in medical ethics and humanism: Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Wolf G. Klinik für Innere Medizin III, University Hospital Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747 Jena, Germany. gunter.wolf@med.uni-jena.de Postgrad Med J. 2006 Feb;82(964):154-6. Abstract Fictional stories about physicians and patients are increasingly used as a powerful teaching resource for medical students. Very often, but not exclusively, stories of physicians as positive role models are selected to teach students virtues and ethical values. Negative role models are rarely used and if so, physicians are rather described as medical quacks in such fiction then exhibiting primarily a corrupted character. I suggest that a fictional story that presents exclusively a negative role model of a physician could also be a valuable, admittedly difficult, teaching resource to demonstrate the consequences of absolute loss of ethical standards and virtues in physicians. A not widely known example of this genre is Louis-Ferdinand Céline's (1894-1961) novel Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), published in 1932. Having a strong autobiographical background, the novel described the adventures of the medicine student, Ferdinand Bardamu, during the first world war, in the African colonies as a trader, in the United States of America as factory worker, and later after finishing his education, as a doctor for the poor. Unfortunately, Dr Bardamu develops an unprofessional, even criminal behaviour, and may serve as a negative role model for the virtues of physicians. This article will familiarise the reader with the novel and its physician author. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596693/pdf/154.pdf   Viaje al final de la noche por Louis Ferdinand Celine Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine http://www.almaclassics.com/excerpts/journeyto.pdf

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