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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    APPENDIX. THE QUESTION OF BULLETINS. The non-existence of any rule, written or traditional, by which the faculty should be governed in issuing bul- letins in the illnesses of distinguished patients—accentuated, moreover, by the unbroken silence of the several Royal Coll eges (whose authoritative utterance would be hailed with satisfaction, and tend to allay contention) on the subject,—will, we trust, be deemed a satisfactory reason and apology for appending hereto the author's personal views on the question, erewhile briefly recorded in the pages of a medical journal (and, so far, without exciting hostile com- ment or adverse criticism,) to the following effect. That much difference of opinion exists on the question may be taken for granted. Looking at it, however, from what, in the absence of a more expressive definition, we would venture to designate a common-sense view, we are strongly inclined to the opinion that undue importance (stimulated, it may be, by a feeling, more or less acute, of jealousy) has been attached to the passing notoriety gained —or, rather, assumed to be—by the affix to medical bulletins of the signatures of the attendant practitioners; from which, nevertheless, we firmly and conscientiously believe,