AAVIS - IPFDS 2008

Joint Scientific Meeting

Westin Excelsior Resort, Venice Lido

Venice, Italy

2nd - 4th October 2008

 

 

ETHICS AND INCONTINENCE WORKSHOP

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Ethical dilemmas facing the gynaecologist and urogynaecologist today are profuse. The large choice of surgical procedures and the comparative high cost of materials for incontinence and pelvic floor support have created a new environment where the profession and the medical devise and pharmaceutical industry are playing for much higher stakes. The high costs of materials almost completely preclude the use of these modern treatments for the developing world – an issue that Western medicine seems to ignore. Industry supported research and journal advertising open areas of potential conflict of interest adding fuel to the debate of what is right and proper in this relationship. Gifts of high financial value to physicians like overseas travel costs to attend conferences may be seen as exerting subliminal influence on the benefactor.

This presentation will review the literature on how industry influences physicians. This literature although prolific in general terms is rather sparse in the specific area of urogynaecology.

A review of ethical theory relevant to ethical decision making will be presented with special reference to virtue ethics and professional integrity. Dynamic mutualism, the Disclosure principle and the Game Theory will be postulated as some tools to assist in ethical decision making.  

 

Bernie Brenner  

 

 

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