Code of ethics of the American Medical Association.

  • American Medical Association.
Date:
1849
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    the case. Both physicians should then retire to a private place for deliberation ; and the one first in attendance should communicate the directions agreed upon to the patient or his friends, as well as any opinions which it may be thought proper to express. But no statement0 or discussion of it should take place before the patient or his friends, except in the presence of all the faculty attending, and by their common consent; and no opinions or prognostications should be delivered, which are not the result of previous deliberation and con- currence. § 4. In consultations, the physician in attend- ance should deliver his opinion first; and when there are several consulting, they should deliver their opinions in the order in which they have been called in. No decision0, however, should restrain the attending physician from making such variations in the mode of treatment, as any subse- quent unexpected change in the character of the case may demand. But such variation, and the reasons for it, ought to be carefully detailed at the next meeting in consultation. The same pri- vilege belongs also to the consulting physician, if he is sent for in an emergency, when the regu- lar attendant is out of the way; and similar ex- » [See Percival'8 Medical Ethict, ch. ii. § 12.]