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Decisions related to the treatment of oncological diseases bring various ethical dilemmas to healthcare providers caring for cancer patients. Along with the development of medicine and new therapeutic methods, there are also increased demands on the appropriate selection of eligible patients for allocation to a particular treatment method, which causes a number of ethical connotations. The paper deals with ethical issues in the course of oncology treatment, with theoretical bases for ethical decision-making and with ethical aspects of communication with patients suffering from oncological diseases. The paper also contains results of studies that dealt with methods of ethical reasoning of health professionals in relation with the Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) decision in oncology, and with understanding of the concept of ethical competence of health professionals in order to make, or be involved in, DNR decisions, and how relevant skills can be developed. Among others, the results of the studies pointed out that in order to make ethically based DNR decisions in oncology, physicians and nurses need to improve their knowledge of ethical theories.
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Vnitřní lékařství je tiskovým orgánem České internistické společnosti České lékařské společnosti Jana Evangelisty Purkyně a Slovenskej internistickej spoločnosti Slovenskej lekárskej spoločnosti. Je vydáván nepřetržitě od roku 1955. Časopis vychází jako měsíčník, tedy 12krát do roka a podle potřeby jsou v běžném ročníku vydávána jeho suplementa, která jsou obsahově zaměřena k určitému tématu. Tematicky je časopis zaměřen široce na oblast interní medicíny se zvláštní pozorností ke kardiologii, diabetologii a poruchám metabolizmu.
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