Why is the book 'The Culture of the Medical Profession in the 21st Century' being proposed to readers? For what reasons do we encourage personal and social analyses of this problem by the entire medical community and people with related interests? There are many
These primarily include:
- rapid civilisational and social changes in Poland and worldwide. They affect, in different ways, the perception of many values in the field of life activity, health and expectations for effective, health-promoting actions of medics and medical care systems.
- the emergence of new health problems - new medical and social diseases and disorders, methods of diagnosis and treatment, on a large, social scale
- inefficiencies in solving society-wide medical problems by state institutions;
- the consolidation of commercial influences and many false medical assessments in the daily life of society;
- the need - for the benefit of people with chronic health problems, disabilities, genetic handicaps - to increase the coherence and strength of the medical community through the development of palliative care and to demonstrate the particular importance of
has a principle "res sacra miser".
Medicine, the doctor, the physician-supporting professions, are great tasks and unique roles, whose main goal is always to fight for the health of the individual human being, for the full use of his or her life forces in the changing civilisation of the 21st century.
Excerpt from the book's introduction