The main motivation for a doctor is his love for people and desire to help them!

Spirituality is a property of the soul, consisting in the predominance of spiritual, moral and intellectual interests over material ones.

S.I. Ozhegov

There is no other motivation than having a desire to help people which keeps doctors firmly in the profession. The doctor needs to be patient and lenient with patients, no matter how they may feel. The moral foundations of medicine are universal moral values, principles and norms. The highest moral values that provide the most general guidelines for the medical profession include goodness, compassion, mercy, freedom, duty, conscience, justice, and others.  In medicine, goodness guides physicians to preserve human life and health. Being the highest value and moral reference point, the good is absolute and unified. In real life, however, the good is realized in a variety of acts and phenomena and manifests itself through the fight against evil and vice. In medical practice, there are often situations of moral choice between good and evil, "less" and "greater" evil. The moral freedom of the doctor gives him the opportunity to take decisive actions aimed at helping the patient, to discover and apply new knowledge and methods in medicine, to give his actions a moral assessment. The realization of freedom is closely linked to moral responsibility - the ability of the individual to be accountable for his or her actions and deeds. Doctors deal with a patient who is experiencing physical or mental suffering. Therefore, a special value in the medical profession is acquired by the values of compassion and mercy, which imply empathy, empathy for another person, coupled with a desire to help him, benevolence, care, love of neighbor. They are opposed to indifference, hard-heartedness, malice, hostility and violence.

Basic principles of biomedical ethics:

The "do no harm" principle (the Hippocratic model);

The principle of "do good" (Paracelsus' model);

The principle of "doing duty" (the deontological model);

the principle of justice;

the principle of respect for human rights and dignity.

High spirituality and morality are especially necessary for physicians, whose mission is to reduce the amount of suffering in the world. This mission can only be accomplished with the doctor's ability to put the interests of others before his own, and must be inconsistently balanced with a sense of his own integrity and the value of his "self". A great influence on a doctor's spiritual development and perfection is exerted by the university and the social environment in which he or she finds himself or herself. Spiritual development of a doctor's personality enables him/her to maintain his/her own mental and physical health and prevents the threat of "burnout". A doctor is expected not only to be professional, but also to be sensitive, kind, responsive, to understand feelings and experiences of patients, to be able to show care, to inspire hope, to encourage to fight the disease and to come to the aid when others need it. The development of all of these qualities is a very important aspect of the development of the physician's personality.

The main role in the process of spiritual and moral perfection of the future doctor belongs to the teachers of the university. Their task in this regard is very difficult, since it is much more difficult to influence a person's spiritual growth than it is to influence his or her physical and mental development. It is even more difficult to encourage students not only to think about high ideals, but also to put moral principles into practice, keeping a balance between their own interests and the needs of others. To do this, the educator must be clearly aware of his beliefs, analyze their integrity and the extent to which he consistently follows them in life.

"It can be learned through elaborate educational programs, if not through mentoring, personal example, or the inherent human method of verbal explanation. A bridge of warmth and trust must be crossed across the chasm that has divided generations."

G. Selle

The spiritual and moral perfection of a physician has no limit and can continue throughout his life in a process of continuous work of self-realization and the formation of skills of self-knowledge and self-education. It is spiritual beauty that will one day save the world, and in such an army of salvation there will be many doctors.

Department of propaedeutics of children’s diseases

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Ruzimuhammad Ismoilov