Medical credo

Abstract

The basics of the worldview, reflecting the totality of moral and professional principles that determine a person’s attitude to life, are usually defined by the Latin word “credo”. How to characterize a doctor’s credo? Many components make a medical credo. A person who steps on the difficult path of medical practice needs not only the ability to maintain mental balance in various complicated situations, but also to serve faithfully and truthfully, with one’s heart and action, to sick people. The vocation for medical practice is determined by high moral qualities and humanism, mercy and compassion, observation and communication skills. The mental, creative process, without which a diagnostic search, leveling or weakening of the symptoms of the disease is impossible, lies at the basis of healing — a real art in assessing the patient’s state by using the medical experience, clinical thinking, and fundamental knowledge from the books. The necessary components of the medical credo should include medical ethics and deontology — the doctor’s ability to sacrifice personal interests and plans, to create and maintain mutual respect between the doctor and the patient. The most difficult problems of prescribing evidence-based treatment, the choice of medications for pharmacotherapy, dosing, taking into account possible drug interactions, determine the effectiveness of the doctor’s actions to defeat the illnesses.