의사는 적응증이 아닌데도 수술을 원하는 환자를어떻게 대해야 할까?:닥터링 통합과정의 설명의무 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

How should physicians respond to patients who request medically unnecessary surgical procedures? This situation arises frequently in medical practice. Most medical colleges educate their students on how to deal with legal and ethical challenges they might encounter in clinical practice. This article introduces readers to how a doctor’s duty to inform patients, especially concerning the issue of medically unnecessary surgeries, was taught in a doctoring integration course at Yonsei University College of Medicine in South Korea. Furthermore, this article characterizes the moral responsibilities that were found in actual clinical cases. The overall aim of the aim of the article is to provide clinicians in South Korea with new perspectives with which to improve the practice of clinical medicine in this country.