Queries in medical ethics / [William Fraser].

  • Fraser, William, -1888.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Queries in medical ethics / [William Fraser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    letter, for liis assistance; and, moreover, if this has been of great consequence, and the patient’s circumstances are such as to justify it, he should advise the latter to send him a suitable fee. Query 8.—When a medical man, on pro¬ ceeding to a case to which he has been sum¬ moned, but has been unable to give prompt attendance, finds that another has been sent for, and has already prescribed—what should be done ? Arts.—He should at once make his bow and retire, if the parties are strangers to him; or, if they are intimate friends, or the case is that of a previous patient, and they express a very decided wish to retain his attendance in preference to that of the other, he should recommend them to set¬ tle on friendly terms with the latter, and after¬ wards to send to himself a message to renew his attendance. Query 9.—When sent for, on an emergency, to a midwifery case, in the absence of the practi¬ tioner whose attendance had been pre-engaged; supposing him at last to arrive when the case is occupying your most serious attention, or even receiving your manual or mechanical interference —what is the proper etiquette to be followed ? Aisrs.-—To resign the case into his hands at once, or, at ail events, as soon as is safely prac-
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