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Modern medicine has forced physicians to face numerous problems unknown to previous generations of doctors: the participation of patients in drug testing, informed consent, the question of the physician’s truthfulness in informing patients about their health condition, or the problem of the active participation of patients in the process of making decisions concerning their therapy.
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In everyday language, probability is our subjective conviction regarding the occurrence of a given event; it is different from statistical probability.
A. Ross Sygdamsbegrebet, Bibliothek for Laeger, 1979, No. 171, pp. 111–129.
H. Wulff, S. Perdersen, R. Rosenberg, Filozofia medycyny, Warszawa: PWN, 1995, p. 160.
Supporters of this view believe that words like “good” and “should” can be reduced to the properties of the world of nature, like “happiness” and “desire”.
H. Wulff, S. Pedersen, R. Rosenberg, Filozofia medycyny,op. cit., p. 237.
Ibid.
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Maroszyńska-Jezowska, B. (2000). The Ethical Problems of Doctors’ Decisions: The Patient’s Autonomy and Paternalism. In: Tymieniecka, AT., Zalewski, Z. (eds) Life the Human Being between Life and Death. Analecta Husserliana, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2081-6_23
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