Background: Medical secrecy originates in the Hippocratic Oath. Medical ethics codes around the world demand the observance of confidentiality and professional secrecy and laws from different countries support them as part of persons’ rights. Therefore it is imperative to reconstruct values in our profession and to become again allied with our patients by respecting their rights. Professional secrecy is a value. It assures fidelity of professionals with patients, generates confidence conditions, assures intimacy so that all men and women may be truthful without fear and assures respect to persons’ liberty in regards to their personal choices and individual rights. Medical secrecy has to be analyzed in the frame of physician-patient relationship. In particular in what refers to health and sexual and reproductive rights, like unwished and untimely pregnancy, induced abortion in risk co...

El conjunto de las enfermedades crónicas denominadas tradicionalmente como “no transmisibles” (síndrome metabólico,diabetes, obesidad, hipertensión, resistencia a la insulina, entre otras) podrían originarse tempranamente en la vida fetal y en la primera infancia por medio de la activación de mecanismos epigenéticos, aun no suficientemente conocidos pero que claramente no implicarían cambios estructurales en las secuencias génicas. El presente artículo, intenta poner a punto el conocimiento disponible desde una perspectiva perinatal. Además, se propone una hipótesis por la cual existiría la posibilidad de la transmisión trans generacional de las enfermedades crónicas en el contexto de la pobreza y la exclusión social. La activación epigenética del denominado “genotipo ahorrador”, se encuentra de manera más prevalente en los sectores socio económicos, más vuln...

Background: Medical secrecy originates in the Hippocratic Oath. Medical ethics codes around the world demand the observance of confidentiality and professional secrecy and laws from different countries support them as part of persons’ rights. Therefore it is imperative to reconstruct values in our profession and to become again allied with our patients by respecting their rights. Professional secrecy is a value. It assures fidelity of professionals with patients, generates confidence conditions, assures intimacy so that all men and women may be truthful without fear and assures respect to persons’ liberty in regards to their personal choices and individual rights. Medical secrecy has to be analyzed in the frame of physician-patient relationship. In particular in what refers to health and sexual and reproductive rights, like unwished and untimely pregnancy, induced abortion in risk co...