A code of medical ethics : with general and special rules for the guidance of the faculty and the public in the complex relations of professional life / by Jukes de Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes, 1815-1899.
Date:
1890
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    20. A wealthy or retired practitioner should abstain gj*p-- from giving gratuitous advice to the affluent or ' well-to-do' —for to dispense with fees which may justly be claimed is not only a default of duty to the profession, but, to a certain extent, a defraudment of the faculty by the patient and the practitioner. [Note.—By the expression—' patient of another practi- tioner '—is meant a patient who may have been under the care of another practitioner at the time of the attack of sickness, or departure from home of the latter, or who may have requested his professional attendance during such absence or sickness, or in any other manner given it to be understood that he regarded the said practitioner as his regular medical attendant.] SECT. 6. THE DUTIES OF PRACTITIONERS WHEN DIFFERENCES OCCUR BETWEEN THEM. i. When a diversity of opinion, or opposition of in- terest, occasions controversy and contention between medical practitioners, the matter in dispute should be referred to the arbitration of one or more physicians, sur- geons, or general practitioners, as may be mutually agreed upon,—or to three practitioners—one to be nominated by each disputant, and the third by the selected two,—or, when practicable, to a County ' Court Medical' ; but neither the subject matter, nor the adjudication, should be com- municated to the patient or friends, excepting under special circumstances:—for publicity in cases of ethical disputes (the points involved in which are usually neither under- stood, nor appreciated by general society,) may be personally F 2