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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    circumstances of its performance, as well as the preparative and the immediate after-treatment, should be mainly left to him. The surgeon, how¬ ever, should not assume any charge of the case beyond what his responsibility as the operator pro tempore requires of him, and should no more lay himself out for continued employment or general consultation by the patient, than would a dentist or cupper, whose services might happen to be required in similar circumstances. Query 11.—When a medical man has a near relative residing at a distance dangerously ill, and when friends have written to him describing the condition of the patient and the treatment pur¬ sued, and wishing his opinion and advice—what course should he adopt? should he address him¬ self to the friends, or to the practitioner in attend¬ ance ? Ans.—To the latter, unquestionably. Query 12.—Is it proper, in a medical man to attend his own wife in her accouchement ? Ans.—Perfectly proper, provided he is accus¬ tomed to this branch of the profession, and she and her friends have confidence in him: but if there be anything unnatural and difficult in the case, he should at once procure assistance; or, if his feelings interfere with the proper treatment of it, he should leave it entirely in the hands of
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