OF MEDICAL ETHICS ADOPTED BY THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. REVISED TO DATE. (THIRD EDITION.) NEW YORK: WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY, 27 GREAT JONES STREET. 1882. 14725 451 1882 CODE OF MEDICAL ETHICS. OF THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS TO THEIR ART. I.-Duties of physicians to their pa § 1. A PHYSICIAN should not only be ever ready to obey the calls of the sick, but his mind ought also to be imbued with the greatness of his mission, and the responsibility he habitually incurs in its discharge. Those obligations are the more deep and enduring, because there is no tribunal, other than his owr. conscience, to adjudge penalties for careless ness or neglect. Physicians should, therefore, minister to the sick with due impressions of 58927 |