Code of ethics of the American Medical Association.

  • American Medical Association.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Code of ethics of the American Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and, in this last case, to request an immediate consultation with the practitioner previously em- ployed. § 9. v 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. § 10. When a physician who has been engaged to attend a case of midwifery, is absent, and an- other is sent for, if delivery is accomplished during the attendance of the latter, he is entitled to the fee, but should resign the patient to the practitioner first engaged. Art. VI.—Of differences between physicians. § 1. x Diversity of opinion, and opposition of interest, may, in the medical, as in other pro- fessions, sometimes occasion controversy and even contention. Whenever such cases unfortunately occur, and cannot be immediately terminated, they should be referred to the arbitration of a sufficient number of physicians, or a court-medical. ' [Ibid. ch. ii. § 25.] * [Ibid. ch. ii. § 24.]