CORTES, KEITH JASON B.

05/14/19
BSMLS 1-C
REFLECTION PAPER
Medical profession has always been an occupation of helping and healing people
and medical ethics have become an inseparable part of it for decades. As a medical
student of San Pedro College I am aiming for a better and a very good life career
someday, I think proper learning and proper translation of what you learned to action
makes it meaningful. Medical ethics is one of the most important things medical
professionals needs to remember, for the reason that a one mistake can make their life
and dreams change. Medical ethics engraved four important principles that would help
me to become successful. First is "autonomy" it means that i need to build up myself
psychologically, morally, and bioethically or govern myself to track always the right path,
way to my goal, dreams and make more possible every decision that I make is right
considering every possible situations especially that we medical professionals is
working not just for ourselves, we are working together with every patient life between
their tragedies conquering the place of life and death. Second is “Beneficence”, this
principle tells me to balance your action every time, always think the risk and cause may
involve resulted from every action that we did. We should take positive steps to prevent
and to remove harm from the patient. These duties are viewed as rational and self-
evident and are widely accepted as the proper goals of medicine. This principle is at the
very heart of health care implying that a suffering supplicant (the patient) can enter into
a relationship with one whom society has licensed as competent to provide medical
care, trusting that the physician’s chief objective is to help. Third “Nonmaleficence”,
requires of us that we not intentionally create a harm or injury to the patient, either
through acts of commission or omission. In common language, we consider it negligent
if one imposes a careless or unreasonable risk of harm upon another. Providing a
proper standard of care that avoids or minimizes the risk of harm is supported not only
by our commonly held moral convictions, but by the laws of society as well.
Justice, The fourth and last principle demands that you should try to be as fair as
possible when offering treatments to patients and allocating scarce medical resources.
You should be able to justify your actions in every situation. As part of our seminar also,
the speaker talked about nanotechnology. According to our book in STS,
Nanotechnology is the field of science that deals with developing and innovating tools
and machines utilizing the scale size of atoms and molecules. Nanotechnology can be
used in many aspects and one of that is in the field of medicine. Nanomedicine is an
application of nanotechnology in the field of medicine which deals with creating tiny
machines to help prevent and treat diseases of the human body. It has also been
applied to diagnostics in a form of nanorobots. Nanomedicine is also applicable for
drugs that are absorbed too quickly and removed from the body as waste before
treatment can be affective. Nanomedicine can increase the time period in which a drug
remains active in the body. Overall, the innovation of nanotechnology is one of the
greatest achievements of this century and use of this technology in field of medicine and
other fields has revolutionized the entire industry.