Patient Modesty: Volume 63

As we start our sixty-third Volume, after reading all the descriptions of "criminality" inside the medical profession within the context of "patient modesty",  I just wondered, to start Volume 63 if we should really define what we are specifically referring to when we use the term "patient modesty". The other aspect of the expression which needs clarification is to whom does the term apply?  Does it apply to every human who is a patient,  including infants and children, to the elderly and demented and to those who are unconscious from anesthesia or in a permanent coma (persistent vegetative state) or, in fact, a patient who is dead?  I think we should all set an accepted definition of the term and to whom the term applies before we argue the case to those within the medical system in an effort to change the system to fully attend to the issues of patient modesty.  So let this be the goal of beginning this Volume.   I repeat, what exactly is "patient modesty" and to whom does it apply or, in fact, not apply? ..Maurice.Graphic: Modesty in the Dictionary: Photograph taken by me 2-9-2014.

Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - February 10, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs