Original Articles
Vol. 66 No. 6 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2017.522
Il diritto all'informazione nella Convenzione di Oviedo: implicazioni etiche e deontologiche / The right to be informed in the Oviedo Convention and its ethical implications
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Received: 25 January 2018
Accepted: 25 January 2018
Published: 25 January 2018
Accepted: 25 January 2018
Published: 25 January 2018
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The second paragraph of Article 10 of the Oviedo Convention establishes the right of the patient to be informed of his/her health condition. This is a right that is not part of the medical tradition and that, although today is considered to be taken, has only recently been introduced into clinical practice. In Italy, this right has only been accepted from medical ethics in 1998 Ethical Code. Certainly, the Oviedo Convention played a key role in the assertion of this right. However, as far as accepted by everyone, there are still doubts about the possibility of ensuring an effective improvement of the care relationship for the sake of the patient, through its not only formal recognition. It is therefore necessary to properly interpret the meaning and to understand how much it will be possible to meet the expectations of the patient. Through a rapid analysis of the cultural context that states the perception of the disease and defines the needs of today's human being, we conclude that properly interpreted patient information can bring the supply of care, closer to the expectations of the patients. This could be possible only if we adopt a new model of medicine, capable of overcoming the current reductive and mechanistic approach. It is essential to consider the ethical dimension of information that, in order to allow the patient to face with dignity the most difficult stages of the disease, must intercept his deeper needs through a form of communication that is not limited to the transmission of only technical data, referring to the binomial diagnosis-prognosis.
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Il diritto all’informazione nella Convenzione di Oviedo: implicazioni etiche e deontologiche / The right to be informed in the Oviedo Convention and its ethical implications. (2018). Medicina E Morale, 66(6), 811-825. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2017.522
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