Medical ethics : a guide to professional conduct / by Robert Saundby.

  • Robert Saundby
Date:
1902
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Credit: Medical ethics : a guide to professional conduct / by Robert Saundby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    newspapers week by week publish answers to correspondents who ask the advice of the editor upon various points of medical ethics and etiquette, and no one who has carefully watched this correspondence can fail to be struck with the sameness of the problems propounded. It has fallen to the lot of the author for a good many years to deal with such questions, and it is the experience thus acquired which has emboldened him to write this little book. Apart from a few resolutions of the General Medical Council, the Royal College of Physicians of London, and some of the other licensing bodies, there are no rules by which a young medical practitioner who desires to do right may regulate his conduct; for although one or two books purporting to deal with medical ethics exist, they are not very satisfactory when guidance is sought upon particular points. It is not sufficient to say, as some people do, that medical ethics may be summed up in the Golden Rule, or that a man has only to behave like a gentle¬ man ; these are doubtless excellent principles, but there are numerous instances in which some definite guidance in their application is needed. Moreover, what was regarded as cus¬ tomary and even proper some years ago, has