Terming medical ethics as the basis of successful clinical medicine, leading physicians have advised the young doctors to acknowledge patients' empowerment and participation in the decisions related to their health.
While addressing at a scientific session on the opening day of international flagship conference organized by Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine (PSIM), here at a local hotel on Friday, Lahore Medical and Dental College principal, Prof Abdul Majeed Chaudhry said that there is considerable healing power in good doctor-patient relationship.
Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro (LUMHS) Vice-chancellor Prof Bikha Ram Devrajani said that ethical decisions cannot be avoided in medical practice. "Whenever doctors make a clinical decision, they are almost always making an ethical decision," he added.
University of Health Sciences Lahore (UHS), Vice chancellor, Prof Javed Akram was of the view that relationship between a patient and a physician is based on trust, which gives rise to physicians' ethical responsibility to place patients' welfare above the physician's own self-interest or obligations to others, to use sound medical judgment on patients' behalf, and to advocate for their patients' welfare.
Scientific sessions were held on the first day. The session on gastrointestinal and liver diseases was chaired by Prof Ghias un Nabi Tayyab, Prof Sadiq Achakzai and Dr Asif Gul. The session on medical education and medical ethics was chaired by Prof Abdul Majeed Ch., Prof. Bikha Ram Devrajani and Prof Munir Azhar.
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