Threats to bioethical principles in medical practice in Brazil: new medical ethics code period

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2018

Authors

Gracindo, GCL (Author) Other; Gallo, JHD (Author) Other; Rui Nunes (Author) FMUP

Journal

Title: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Vol. 51

ISSN: 0100-879X

Publisher: Associacao Brasileira de Divulgacao Cientifica

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-S55

DOI: 10.1590/1414-431x20176988

Abstract (EN): We aimed to outline the profile of medical professionals in Brazil who have violated the deontological norms set forth in the ethics code of the profession, and whose cases were judged by the higher tribunal for medical ethics between 2010 and 2016. This survey was conducted using a database formed from professional ethics cases extracted from the plenary of the medical ethics tribunal of the Federal Council of Medicine. These were disciplinary ethics cases that were judged at appeal level between 2010 and 2016. Most of these professionals were male (88.5%) and their mean age was 59.9 years (SD=11.62) on the date of judgment of their appeals, ranging from 28 to 95 years. Most of them were based in the southeastern region of Brazil (50.89%). Articles 1 and 18 of the medical ethics code were the rules most frequently violated. The sentence given most often was the cancellation of their professional license (37.6%) and the acts most often sentenced involved malpractice, imprudence, and negligence (18.49%). It is acknowledged that concern for the principles of bioethics was present in the appeal decisions made by the plenary of the medical ethics tribunal of the Federal Council of Medicine.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7