Medical ethics and etiquetteD. Appleton and Company, 1883 - 97 pages |
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... disease em- brace many and varying elements , which can not always be estimated with absolute certainty . They offer a wide scope for the exercise of judgment in the practical applications of medical knowledge . It is by no means easy ...
... disease em- brace many and varying elements , which can not always be estimated with absolute certainty . They offer a wide scope for the exercise of judgment in the practical applications of medical knowledge . It is by no means easy ...
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... diseases to patients and their friends , with communica- tions respecting the diseases of patients to others , and with testimony given in courts of law . Finally , moral obliga- tions to society are to be fulfilled by the members of ...
... diseases to patients and their friends , with communica- tions respecting the diseases of patients to others , and with testimony given in courts of law . Finally , moral obliga- tions to society are to be fulfilled by the members of ...
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... disease upon the mind . Disease not infrequently renders persons impatient , querulous , irritable , distrustful , suspicious , and these morbid mental conditions may manifest themselves in language and manner , perhaps , much at ...
... disease upon the mind . Disease not infrequently renders persons impatient , querulous , irritable , distrustful , suspicious , and these morbid mental conditions may manifest themselves in language and manner , perhaps , much at ...
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... disease . It would be simply absurd to take this ground . The condition of a patient in respect of danger , and , in some instances , the probable duration of disease , may properly be made known to those who are interested in the ...
... disease . It would be simply absurd to take this ground . The condition of a patient in respect of danger , and , in some instances , the probable duration of disease , may properly be made known to those who are interested in the ...
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... diseases , either for gain , sympathy , or notoriety , there can be no question as to the duty of expos- ure . In private practice the duty will vary according to the circumstances in individual instances . The duty then points to the ...
... diseases , either for gain , sympathy , or notoriety , there can be no question as to the duty of expos- ure . In private practice the duty will vary according to the circumstances in individual instances . The duty then points to the ...
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Page 37 - It is due to the latter, as without it he cannot command their respect and confidence, and to both, because no scientific attainments can compensate for the want of correct moral principles. It is also incumbent upon the faculty to be temperate in all things, for the practice of physic requires the unremitting exercise of a clear and vigorous understanding; and, on emergencies, for which no professional man should be unprepared, a steady hand, an acute eye, and an unclouded head may be essential...
Page 41 - A physician afflicted with disease is usually an incompetent judge of his own case; and the natural anxiety and solicitude which he experiences at the sickness of a wife, a child, or any one who, by the ties of consanguinity, is rendered peculiarly dear to him, tend to obscure his judgment, and produce timidity and irresolution in his practice. Under such circumstances, medical men are peculiarly dependent upon each other, and kind offices and professional aid should always be cheerfully and gratuitously...
Page 30 - A patient should never weary his physician with a tedious detail of events or matters not appertaining to his disease. Even as relates to his actual symptoms, he will convey much more real information by giving clear answers to interrogatories, than by the most minute account of his own framing. Neither should he obtrude upon his physician the details of his business nor the history of his family concerns.
Page 29 - This is the more important, as many diseases of a mental origin simulate those depending on external causes, and yet are only to be cured by ministering to the mind diseased. A patient should never be afraid of thus making his physician his friend and adviser; he should always bear in mind that a medical man is under the strongest obligations of secrecy. Even the female sex should never allow feelings of shame or delicacy to prevent their disclosing the seat, symptoms, and causes of complaints peculiar...
Page 69 - A wealthy physician should not give advice gratis to the affluent; because his doing so is an injury to his professional brethren. The office of a physician can never be supported as an exclusively beneficent one ; and it is defrauding, in some degree, the common funds for its support, when fees are dispensed with which might justly be claimed.
Page 66 - ... 8. A physician, when visiting a sick person in the country, may be desired to see a neighboring patient who is under the regular direction of another physician, in consequence of some sudden change or aggravation of symptoms. The conduct to be pursued on such an occasion is to give advice adapted to present circumstances ; to interfere no...
Page 29 - A patient who has thus selected his physician, should always apply for advice in what may appear to him trivial cases, for the most fatal results often supervene on the slightest accidents. It is of still more importance that he should apply for assistance in the forming stage of violent diseases; it is to a neglect of this precept that medicine owes much of the uncertainty and imperfection with which it has been reproached.
Page 21 - The life of a sick person can be shortened not only by the acts, but also by the words or the manner of a physician. It is, therefore, a sacred duty to guard himself carefully in this respect, and to avoid all things which have a tendency to discourage the patient and to depress his spirits.
Page 21 - A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease. But he should not fail, on proper occasions, to give to the friends of the patient timely notice of danger when it really occurs ; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary.
Page 27 - His counsels, or even remonstrances, will give satisfaction, not offence, if they be proffered with politeness, and evince a genuine love of virtue, accompanied by a sincere interest in the welfare of the person to whom they are addressed.