BLAGO PATsIENTA KAK PREDNAZNAChENIE MEDITsINSKOY DEYaTEL'NOSTI

The article explores the problem of the patient's good in clinical medicine. The patient's good is viewed as a goal of medical activitiy and a hierarchical structure based on four levels of human existence. It includes a medical good, personal good, good of patients as human beings, and moral good. Successful communication in the patient-physician clinical encounter based on the moral principles of respect for the patient, honesty, and humanism is an important condition for achieving the patient's good.

: patient's good, goal of medical activity, medical good, personal good, human good, moral good, patient-physician clinical encounter, moral principles