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MARTINEZ HERNANDEZ, Clara Magdalena. Medical errors in clinical practice, from the biological to the medicosocial paradigm. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2006, vol.32, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3127.

The medical attention interventions try to benefit patients, but they can also cause harm. The Scientific and Technical Revolution has provoked the appearance of new technologies and an increasing specialization; however, it is observed a fragmentation, depersonalization and dehumanization of medical attention. The health personnel can make diverse medical errors and, therefore, it should assume greater responsibilities before society and not only to respond to old moral imperatives. At present, to the precepts of medical ethics “I will not do any harm... and I will act for the benefit of the sick...” , the bioethic principles of “justice and autonomy” are added, allowing the incorporation of society and of the patient with his cultural, human and ethic dimensions, and socializing this process. The social concern for the existance of medical errors is growing in the whole world and it generates the need of an attempt to improve the possible medical errors and, above all, the negligences. This paper intends to analyze the medical error occurring in clinical practice from the approach of the biological and medicosocial paradigms, considering the bioethic perspective. As the principles of bioethics be respected, medical errors will decrease. The present situation of México and Tabasco as regards the approach of the medical error from the view of the medicosocial paradigm is exposed, and it is concluded that there is a long way to go

Palabras clave : Medical error; medical ethics; bioethics; biological paradigm; medicosocial paradigm.

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