Zimbabwe: Ethics in Medical Care a World Issue

opinion

Harare — I would like to take this opportunity to write about ethics in medical care, because it has become an issue all over the world.

This is the result of the progress in societal development, and, in particular, the exponential growth of access to information, which we have all experienced in the last decade. I believe in the principle, encapsulated by the American Medical Association in Chicago in 1969, that public or private health has the duty to render service to humanity with dignity in mind.

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