Code of ethics of the American Medical Association.

  • American Medical Association.
Date:
1849
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    § 2. As peculiar reserve must be maintained by physicians towards the public, in regard to pro- fessional matters, and as there exist numerous points in medical ethics and etiquette, through which the feelings of medical men may be pain- fully assailed in their intercourse with each other, and which cannot be understood or appreciated by ( general society; neither the subject * matter of such differences, nor the adjudication of the arbi- trators, should be made public, as publicity in a case of this nature may be personally injurious to the individuals concerned, and can hardly fail to bring discredit on the faculty. Art. VII.—Of pecuniaiy acknowledgments7. Some general rules should be adopted by the faculty, in every town or district, relative to pe- cuniary acknowledgments from their patients; and 1 it should be deemed a point of honour to adhere to these rules with as much uniformity as varying circumstances will admit. T [See Percival'8 Medical Ethics, ch. ii. § 24.] ■ [Ibid. ch. ii. § 15.] I