[Misunderstandings and pitfalls on the narrow pathway of medical ethics]

Due to the scientific progress and the rapid changes in social circumstances, medical ethics became a complicated and difficult science. On the basis of fundamental and simple principles of medical ethics (salus aegroti suprema lex) the author tries to take standpoint in questions arisen in his practice in which the medical aspect was not necessarily obvious. It can be ethically faulty when more then necessary is provided to the patients (in prescribing medicine, in welfare, in performing examinations). It is necessary that the steadily increasing medical specialization goes together with the better cooperation between the medical disciplines and with wider distribution of special experience. The system of the medical honorarium should be entirely open and publicly regulated. It is a medical ethical obligation to place the organs of brain death cases suitable for transplantation at the disposal of patients requiring it. In the field of reproduction not the suspicion alone but the undoubtebly proven injury of fetus only can be a sufficient medical indication for the termination of pregnancy. The medical person by his attitude in creating optimal conditions for the perinatal care has to do his best in avoiding any heartlessness, contralily, in promoting willingness in the parents to have children.