Professional Conduct of Physicians from the view point of selected Iranian Medicine Scholars

Abstract

Medicine is one of the most important sciences that has always played an active and dynamic role throughout human life, and this evolve along with the scientific and technological development of mankind. Because medicine has a direct relation with human life and health, it has always been a concern for alls human beings, and as a result, the physician has had a high status in human communities. This high status, over time, with the combination of medicine and philosophy and religious and cultural beliefs, has led to a large part of the medical approach to ethical issues, although this is relatively proportional to the cultural and religious structures of any civilization, but In general, in all societies and civilizations, the complex of the following processes of medical ethics has been integrated and always adhered to. Throughout Iran's history before and after Islam, in line with the breadth and breadth of the knowledge of medicine as compared to those of the past, the ethical principles of the field of medicine have been prominent; issues such as the teaching of medicine, the relationship between physician and patient, secrecy Medical, ethical features of the physician and ... among them. Due to the importance of these ethical approaches to improving the status of medicine and physicians in the history of Iranian medicine, the study of the behavior of physicians from an ethical point of view is one of the requirements and research requirements of this time that can be used to clarify and consolidate the ethical system of medicine, has brought. The present study, with the understanding of this necessity, is a study in the ethical perspectives of six selected Iranian & Islamic scholars from the third to the twelfth century, these physicians include al-Rohavi, Rhazes, Majousi Ahvazi, Avicenna, Aqili Shirazi. From a structural point of view, the present research is a "descriptive" research based on "historical analysis" and aims to censor the most important ethical features of the medical physician based on the judgment of the six physicians. The results of the research indicate that the discussion of medical ethics is one of the medical requirements in the views of the six physicians and the discussion of medical ethics in their works has a significant effect.