The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Association—the late Sir Charles Hastings—two Select Committees* were appointed to consider and report on the subject; and if further evidence on the point be necessary, let the printed rules of the various local Medico-Ethical Societies themselves testify: in reference to which latter it may be well to note, that those they have hitherto published are generally considered to lack that fulness of ethical detail so essential to a due perception of the relative rights and reciprocal duties of the profession and the public—an omission which the compiler, with the aid of others, has endeavoured to supply in the following pages. That many practitioners err from ignorance, and that an approved, comprehensive code for reference would be acceptable to the bulk of the profession, the compiler entertains a strong belief, based on up- wards of twenty 3'ears' official experience in ethical disputes, and numerous communications from all parts of the kingdom seeking for information and advice on the subject. In preparing the present compilation, the selected rules have been anxiously considered, line by line; and where by change or omission of words, phrases, or sentences, it was thought that the meaning could be rendered more intelligible, the right has been freely exercised; indeed, there are but few, if any, which have not been more or less so modified. Numerous additions have also been made thereto, and a few unwritten customs introduced: and one such will be found in the last, though, it is hoped, not the least useful, chapter on ' Intra-Professional Etiquette'—the need of which has long been felt, and from a late incident, forcibly impressed on the attention of The Author. The College, Shrewsbury, Jamiaryy i8']8. * These Committees, unfortunately, never met in Conference, owing to the incon- venient distances at which the several members resided from each other. Note.—The compiler will feel greatly obliged if his professional brethren will kindly favour him with suggestions for the improvement of the unavoidably imperfect code.