Ordinary and Extraordinary Means and the Respect to the Decision by a Patient
Řádné a mimořádnéprostředky ve světle respektuk rozhodování nemocného
Je představeno tradiční učení moralistů, týkající se třídění léčebných postupů na řádné amimořádné. Je doloženo, že toto třídění souviselo především s hodnocením nemocného: s jehopředstavami o kvalitě života, a to i života po podstoupení určité léčby, s jeho zvažováním dobraa zátěže léčby a s jeho představami o životě v umírání. Dnes je toto třídění již nahrazeno spíšeúvahami o patřičnosti nebo nepatřičnosti léčby. Přesto však zvažování, jež vedlo k popisované-mu třídění, nám může pomoci v těžkých klinických rozhodováních a rovněž nás může véstk většímu respektu k názoru nemocných, pokud jde o jejich vlastní život.
Klíčová slova:
řádné prostředky - mimořádné prostředky - paternalismus.
Authors:
M. Munzarová
Authors‘ workplace:
Ústav lékařské etiky LF MU, Brno, vedoucí doc. MUDr. M. Munzarová, CSc.
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Prakt. Lék. 2000; (1): 45-47
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Traditional distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means is presented. It is provedthat this distinction was connected with the assessment of a patient: with his quality-of-lifejudgement (including the quality-of-life after treatment), with his assessment of the benefitsand burdens of treatments and with his attitudes to the life when dying. Today we speak ratherof medical treatments that are proportionate or disproportionate. Nevertheless the thinkingwhich was connected with the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means may helpus in our hard clinical decision making and may stress the respect to the patient™s perceptionof his or her own life.
Key words:
ordinary means - extraordinary means - paternalism.
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