UdSSR: Verstöße gegen das ärztliche Berufsethos
USSR: Violations of Medical Ethics

Summary/Abstract: The Soviet doctors are state employees. Compared to other occupational groups with a comparable level of education, their salaries are rather low. Therefore, it is understandable that some of them at-tempt to supplement their income in an unlawful way by preferential treatment of certain patients for "tips" or by taking advantage of the fact that some medicines are scarce. Such grievances deplore the Soviet press again and again (see Eastern Europe, 5/1977, pp. A 285ff., and: 5/1978, pp. A 289ff.). The assumption of bribes and dark transactions with medicines were also - with political background - the subject of the indictment of the 1974 held in Vinnitsa against the doctor. Stern (see Eastern Europe, 8/1978, pp. 747ff.). The author of the following article, taken from the Literaturnaya Gazeta, once again picked up on this theme and added a few nuances to it. In a statement by Deputy Minister of Health of the USSR, D. Benediktov, it was said that "a college has been formed" comprising a number of medical science per-sonalities, the health ministers of the individual Union republics and the press, and fighting against the already mentioned successfully (see Literaturnaya gazeta, 25.10.1978, p. 13). SOURCE: L. Velikanova: Opasnyj diagnoz. O vračebnoj česti i o těch, kto eju ne dorožit [Gefährliche Diagnose. Über die ärztliche Ehre und über jene, die sie nicht schätzen], in: Literaturnaja gazeta, Nr. 29, 19. 7.1978, S. 12

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