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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    during canvassing by candidates and their friends are often most objectionable. Medical practitioners should exert all their influence to secure that such elections should be in the hands of a comparatively small com¬ mittee. Testimonials should not be advertised or dis¬ tributed to others than the members of the electorate, and there should be no use of posters or handbills in favour of any candidate. Change of Medical Attendant. It must be conceded that every patient has the right to select his or her own medical attendant, and to change him at will. Therefore, provided certain conditions are fulfilled, one medical practitioner may succeed another in attend¬ ance upon any person or case, without affording ground for complaint. The most essential condition is that the former medical attendant should be courteously informed that his services are no longer required: and it is the duty of every medical practitioner, when called upon to supersede a colleague, to take care that this act of courtesy has been performed. The other condition is that no one is at liberty to take over the treatment of a case to which he has been called in consultation, or where he has acted as a substitute for the ordinary medical