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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    CHAP. III. braced in the science of Medical Jurisprudence. But in Sect. I. _ _ ^ — such cases, and especially those in which a critical post mortem or other scientific examination is necessary, It is only right and just, in consideration of the time, labour, and skill required, and the responsibility and risk they incur, that a fitting honorarium (other than the inadequate fee so often tendered, under the plea of legal restriction,) should be awarded for the skilled service. [In certain cases, in which the required evidence is not compulsory on the practitioner, it may at times be prudent on his part to stipulate (as is the rule with ' Counsel',) for an adequate and specified fee.] 3. In giving evidence on any medical question before a Court of Law, or other tribunal of society—whether in criminal or civil matters,—the faculty should act with thoughtful care and rigid impartiality :— A. —In ' Criminal Cases '—lest their testimony should tend either to prejudice the cause of an innocent person, or lead to a failure of justice. B. —In ' Civil Causes' as in suits for compensation after railway, or other accidents,—that they may not by partial or partisan evidence unintentionally mislead the Court. With the view to avoid the lamentable differences of opinion which, proclaimed in open court, have undoubtedly brought discredit upon medical evidence in general, and scandal on the profession at large,—it cannot be too forcibly impressed upon the faculty, that, in all such cases, bona fide, honest consultations should be freely held between the professional witnesses of the respective litigants ; that differences of opinion should be courteously advanced, and carefully weighed and argued ; that each with the other should be frankly ingenuous, and unreservedly open—or in