Executive medical check-up under bioethics

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Carlos Mario González Vásquez

Abstract

Problems surrounding executive medical check-up were analyzed from the bioethical standpoint. This article deals with how truthfulness and the principles of non-maleficence and justice are affected. Finally, executive medical check-up is linked to the so-called “medicine of desire”.

Keywords:
Physical examination, bioethics, beneficence, ethics

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Author Biography

Carlos Mario González Vásquez, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe

Radiologist. Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe y Serad Ltda. Medellín, Colombia.

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