Abstract

Background: Medical deontology rests on two of its pillars. One is medical ethics, and the other is medical law, i.e. legal regulations that regulate work on health protection and improvement. Ethics is of exceptional importance for medicine, due to the specificity of its calling. Objective: The aim of this article was to explaine the role of medical ethics and medical right in the healthcare professional praxis. Methods: The author used important scientific and professional literature regarding medical deontology, medical ethics and medical low published in the books, monographs and papers deposited in the scientific indexed databases PubMed Central, HINARI, Embase, etc. Results and Discussion: The specificity stems, first of all, from the fact that medicine deals with human life and health, which, in itself, carries a great responsibility. The relationships established between medical professionals and patients are also specific. In this relationship, the patient is in a subordinate and dependent position, which creates preconditions for his abuse. Due to the nature of the work, it is difficult to establish external supervision or control in order to prevent these abuses. This in turn emphasizes the importance of internal supervision and control with the help of medical ethics. Medical ethics sensitizes medical professionals to problems of an ethical nature and helps them recognize and solve them. Medical ethics is, in fact, a set of principles or rules of conduct that a medical professional must follow when making decisions about what is right and wrong, what is permitted and prohibited, what is good and bad for the patient, but also for the community. Making these decisions is often not easy. Conclusion: There are ethical principles that can conflict, which leads to ethical dilemmas, which are sometimes difficult to resolve. Take, for example, the obligation of a doctor to take into account the interests of the patient and to maintain his medical confidentiality. At the same time, however, he must also take care of the interests of the community or other persons. There are cases when the health, and even the lives of those other persons, could be endangered without revealing the medical confidentiality. Medical ethics helps resolve such and similar dilemmas.

Key words: Medical deontology, Medical ethics, Medical low, Medical right