Sports Medicine and Ethics

Ethics in sports medicine.

All physicians are faced at some time with fundamental challenges while striving to respect the principle canons which define a physician's ethical code. These canons are: 1. Primacy of patient interests, 2. Patient confidentiality, 3, Informed consent, and 4. Maintenance of a high standard of care. Athletes, because of their focus on performance, often present unique situations which lead to e...

Ethics in sports medicine--the sports physician.

There are problems about the limitations of medical skills, both generally and in the individual case. In sport every coach and athlete is almost uninterested in present knowledge and its limits. The coach only starts looking for new aids at the borders of the present knowledge. Therefore, the doctor is in the land of speculation, risk, research and new ground, new theory and new fact. In pract...

BACKGROUND PAPER Sports science and medicine: ethics

Ethics in sports medicine--some medico-legal considerations.

A medical practitioner who is only registered with the General Medical Council is, by virtue of that registration only entitled legally to practise in the United Kingdom. This registration does not entitle him to practise anywhere else in the world unless he has made the necessary arrangements in advance with the appropriate authorities in the host country. This is equally true if he treats Uni...

Musculoskeletal medicine/sports medicine.

S aturday afternoon, five o clock, and its football time in the casualty waiting room. A colourful zoo of mud splattered jerseys, with makeshift splints, slings, and sodden ice packs. In a world of trauma and triage, musculoskeletal injuries take their place at the back of the queue. Weekend warriors limping home with this month’s NSAID and a double Tubigrip. And not just Saturday, for everyday...