Scientific, technological and bioethical considerations related to the indiscriminate use of the clinical laboratory
Abstract
Introduction: technological advances enable healthcare professionals to have novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods whose use contributes to increase the chances of survival and improve the quality of life of patients, although with the inconveniences of generating stress and anxiety and creating problems of bioethical character.
Objective: to expose some bioethical and scientific-technological considerations related to the indiscriminate use of the clinical laboratory.
Method: the national and international bibliography available in printed format and in Internet databases was revised. The most updated works were selected and, from them, a structured synthesis of the subject was elaborated from the perspective of the studies of science, technology and society.
Development: laboratory tests allow the specialist to confirm or rule out diagnoses, establish prognoses, control the course of the disease and treatment outcomes, detect complications, collaborate with epidemiological studies or risk groups, participate in research protocols and clinical trials for the introduction of new drugs. But the subjection of the medical criterion to the complementary examinations to the detriment of the use of the clinical method is a clear example of the technological advance associated with the intellectual recoil.
Conclusions: the indiscriminate use of the clinical laboratory implies an ethical and scientific technological dilemma, with a negative social impact of science and technology in medical practice.Downloads
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