[Academic medicine and care medicine].

نویسنده

  • Juan Ramón de La Fuente
چکیده

En los últimos años, quienes hemos trabajado en los ámbitos de la salud, la educación y el desarrollo social hemos podido constatar la importancia creciente de la compleja relación que hay entre la medicina académica, la salud de la población, la medicina asistencial y los valores sociales. Todos ellos se nutren recíprocamente y unos dan mayor pertinencia a los otros. Esta trama ha recibido, a mi juicio, menos atención de lo que amerita. Es oportuno examinar el asunto, toda vez que es en la perspectiva de los valores sociales de la medicina y del rigor intelectual con que se ejerza desde donde pueden analizarse mejor y proyectarse con más autoridad los retos y las alternativas que permiten a nuestra profesión incidir con mayor fuerza en el bienestar individual y colectivo. Empiezo por resaltar la importancia que en el contexto social actual tiene la medicina académica. La medicina académica se sustenta sobre todo en la enseñanza y en la investigación, en el análisis documentado de los procesos que determinan la salud y la enfermedad. Estos elementos son los que permiten ofrecer la mejor medicina asistencial posible sin prejuicios étnicos, religiosos o ideológicos. Habría que agregar, por supuesto, que todo ello adquiere verdadera relevancia solo si se desarrolla en estricto apego a la ética del trabajo médico y el respeto cabal a los derechos de los pacientes y de sus familiares. La medicina académica es sin duda la que mejores posibilidades tiene de incorporar al ejercicio profesional los nuevos descubrimientos científicos, es la única que ofrece

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico

دوره 84 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014