The Burma Medical Council

Date:
1939
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/86
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Burma Medical Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stan 23. No medical practitioner should volunteer to give evidence in a Court of Law against any person who had been under his professional care. He should only appear on subpoena. 24. Medical Officers of Health should not ordinarily visit a patient under the care of a medical practitioner without notice, and should not express doubt or dissent with respect to the diagnosis before the patient or his friends. A Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Authority ought not to demand a statement of the symptoms upon which a diagnosis of a - notifiable disease was based by any medical practitioner. 25. It is the duty of medical practitioners as citizens to assist cordially in carrying out the provisions of the Public Health Acts, especially with regard to the notification of diseases. so as to enable the Public Health Authorities to take preventive measures to check the spread of epidemics. 26. No medical practitioner should make use of an unduly large signboard, and only in cases where there are several entrances, or the building has more than one frontage, should more than one signboard be placed. The board should never indicate more than the name,. degree or diploma and rank or title, if any, with bare details of any particular line of practice. Thus, it would be proper to add “ Physician,” ‘‘ Surgeon,” or “ Physician and Surgeon,” “ Ophthalmic Surgeon,” or “ Throat and Nose Specialist,” or such other single designation of one speciality only. The practitioner should not notify treatment of a disease by special line of treatment, e.g., treatment of diabetes by insulin ; nor is it advisable to mention on @ board any position he may be holding, or have previously held on the staff of a hospital or other institution. 27. When a registered practitioner wishes to notify a change in his address, he may ~ publish a notice to that effect four times only on simultaneous dates in any number of papers. Such notices should not state anything beyond the bare change of address.
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