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Instead ofthe technological advances , some disease are still present. The bioethics recommendations optimized the patient's autonomy and the right of information, instead of the worst prognosis. Which is the situation in Panama? The objective of this work is to analize the impact of death.
Methodology: One hundred deep, open , personal and confidential interviews about death, and the right of the patient to receive information and make decis ions about theirselves , with differents medical groups from differents areas , patients and parents. The information obtained in the interviews was organized in categories by disease (acute severe with possible death less than one week ; and chronic diseases with death in long terms).
Results: 80% of medical group and 90% of family mem bers said that the information about death in a severe patient has to be told sinc e the moment of considering the possibility but 80% of the medical group and 97% of family members retracted the temporal determination of death.This attitude was separated from religion, gender and sociallevel of the persons, instead the indigenas that prefer not to give the information to the sick person, because the hope is important. This attitude is different from some bioethic's principies outside the real context of the people and the medical practice.
Conclusion: The information about death has to be individualized in the bioethic parameters and in the local culture with the patient's autonomy, his parents or social group.
