Maria,
thank you for sharing this situation and your conclusions.
Still, what I read leaves me wondering about ethics that would leave you
responsible for the results other people get. From what I understand of the
Hippocratic oath that made the doctor only responsible for the effort. It
seems presumptuous to think any profession can save all lives. We were gods
if we could do that.
all the best
Heiki
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Maria Goossens goossens.maria@xxxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear all,
As a result of the suicide of one of my patients short after a
constellation done by a colleague, I want to rise an ethical issue.
As a physician, at least in Belgium, we are ALWAYS responsible for our
patients. I raised this issue before the start of the workshop I organized
for my colleague. This responsibility makes, that even if the colleague
does the constellation, I'm still the physician of my patients. My
colleague did not agree that I participated as the physician of my
patients. His idea was that I was as one of the other participants. Seen I
could not take my responsibility towards my patients, I stayed home the
second day in order not to disturb the ongoing workshop.
With the feedback of my patients, with the suicide in mind, the issue that
I want to rise is the following:
As a physician we have full responsibility for the well-being of our
patients, promote their health and relieve their pain.
The position is different for a psychologist or another care-giver.
As a physician, whatever treatment we use, including constellations, we
always have full responsibility for the treatment we choose and our
patients.
Second point is that patients always have to ask for help at the physician
in the first place. So, as a physician we are not allowed to send them
emails with invitations for workshops.
It's clear for myself that I was not acting in line with the ethics of my
profession that particular weekend. I placed the wishes of my colleagues
above the ethics of my profession.
Whether my presence at the workshop could have prevented this suicide, we
will never know.
For myself, it feels as very important that the ethics of my profession
could be recognized by colleagues doing constellations.
Mieke
Maria Goossens, MD
goossens.maria@xxxxxxxxxx
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