Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2013
[The obligation to inform the patient: issues on the right to be informed].
This article aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the boundaries of the obligation imposed on health care providers to inform the patient. This requirement originated and was developed as an ethical issue. ⋯ With this purpose, we will focus on the comparative experience, which will allow us to evaluate the responsibility of health care providers when this duty is breached. We will try to answer the following questions: Which medical information must be informed to the patient? When should the doctor inform the patient? In which form should this information be provided?.
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Diabetic microangiopathy is one of the main causes of erectile dysfunction. ⋯ Erectile dysfunction is common among diabetic patients and closely associated with an inadequate metabolic control.
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Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2013
Biography Historical Article[The portrait of medicine and Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)].
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most important representatives of the modernist movement of the Viennese Secession. The most notable works carried out at his golden age were the "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" and "The kiss". In 1901 he paints "Medicine" where he returns to the entanglement of floating bodies -the lifetime- among which appears the skeleton of death; a female figure stands out from the column to represent freedom from pain. ⋯ During the advance of enemy troops, and fearing that these works would become spoils of war, it was decided to burn the castle where they remained confiscated. Therefore, countless artworks were lost. The progressive development of symbolic or abstract motifs already emphasized the freedom of spirit that permeated all the avant-garde of early twentieth century.