Medical responsability

Abstract

The Author stress ses the change introduced in Clinical Medicina by the advent of modern tech­nologies and by a more informed and demanding patient population. A new physician-patient re­lationship has emerged in which the physician is not the central player anymore. Reflection is clearly needed on the new bioethical and huma­nistic values in this relationship. According to the Author, the physician should recover the role as an advisor. ln the future as it is easily predicta­ble, besides the physician's responsability towar­ds he patient, he will also be more responsable for the cost-benefit ratio of medical care within the society. It is theref ore mandatory to nurture the physician-patient relationship the essence of the art of medicine.