Ethical issues concerning medical expertise

Abstract

Is a document, 26 centuries old, like the Hipocratic Code, still capable nowadays to decide all the problems that face us due to the new aspects of modern medicine? Starting in this first question (answered by no) the writer, taking as an example the medical expertise (not mentioned- as many other actions- by Hipocrates) and, based in his own proposal, to reformulate the percepts that spring from an actual theory of medicine itself, analyzes the peculiar aspect of medicine expertise and summarizes six basic attitudes, understood as fundamentals to a decent and right way to that function. At the end, emphasizes knowledge, freedom and absence of prejudice as the most important of them all.