Saturday, March 17, 2012

Medical Ethical Knowledge and Moral ttitudes Among Physicians in Bavaria.

Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2012 Feb; 109(8): 141-7
Wandrowski J, Schuster T, Strube W, Steger F

Everyday clinical practice requires believe of healing ethics as well as the taking of moral positions. We investigated the ethical believe as well as attitudes of the deputy representation of physicians with courtesy to end-of-life decisions, euthanasia, as well as the physician-patient relationship.192 physicians (96 women, 96 men; mean age 50) in the random representation of Bavarian physicians completed our structured questionnaire. Data were picked up from September to November 2010.There was much uncertainty among the respondents about the relevant believe for end-of-life decisions as well as the doing of existing guidelines as well as laws on euthanasia as well as advance directives. Attitudes to ethical questions were found to be correlated with the length of time the physicians had been in practice.Physicians' personal values as well as moral attitudes play the major role in clinical decision-making. We used the questionnaire to examine physicians' opinions about end-of-life issues as well as to establish the factors which might change them. We found their believe of healing ethics to be inadequate. Competence in healing ethics needs to be strengthened by more ethical teaching in healing school, specialty training, as well as stability healing education.


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