Korean Journal of Medical Ethics

The Korean Society for Medical Ethics

Korean J Med Ethics 2003; 6(2):46-59

pISSN: 2005-8284, eISSN: 2234-3598

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35301/ksme.2003.6.2.46

Article

의사윤리지침의 유용성, 한계, 구속성

유호종¹

The Usefulness and Binding Feature of Code of Doctor's Ethics

Ho-Jong YU¹

¹연세대학교 의과대학 의료법윤리학과

¹Department of Medical Law & Ethics, College of Medicine, Yonsei University

ⓒ Copyright 2003 The Korean Society for Medical Ethics. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Dec 30, 2003

ABSTRACT

Korean Medical Association has made Code of Doctor's Ethics in 2002. Korean Doctors, however, do not know well and try to apply the code to acts. How do the doctors have to treat it? In order to answer to the question, I examined the usefulness of the code, it's limit, and binding feature of the code.

The code is useful for doctors to make correct ethical judgements easily. Such usefulness is limited by the possibility of mistake, contradiction with laws, and generality of it's expressions, but the limit can be reduced. So, it is wise that Korean doctors use the code with the notice of it's limits. Moreover, the doctors is demanded to apply the code, for it expresses the duties of them.

Keywords: 의사윤리지침; 대한의사협회; 윤리지침의 유용성; 윤리지침의 구속성

Keywords: Code of Doctor's Ethics; Korean Medical Association; The usefulness of ethical code; The binding feature of ethical code