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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    cines, you might, with perfect propriety, select from among his recipes, the old and disused ones, and tell him to lay these aside, or destroy them, in order to prevent mistakes; but you have no right, even in the case of a gratuitous patient, to recal or destroy a single prescription that has once passed your hand and been used by the patient. I would much rather run the risk of having my practice criticised by my brethren, (believing, as I do, that no honourable man, or one who could have much influence with a well- principled person, would take any unfair advan¬ tage,) than give my patient or his friends any reason to suspect that I wished to conceal or misrepresent the treatment that had been pur¬ sued. I have known instances of persons vent¬ ing the most bitter (though, I believe, undeserv¬ ed,) reflections on a medical man’s treatment of their deceased relative, simply because he had asked for the prescriptions and destroyed them after his patient’s death. Query 20.-—In the case of an accident in¬ volving responsibility on the part of any one, whether has the sufferer, or the person whose responsibility is compromised, the right to ap¬ point the medical attendant ? Ays.—The patient himself or his friends, I think, have the prior right, (whether they choose to ex-
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