Code of ethics of the American Medical Association.

  • American Medical Association.
Date:
1849
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    [AMERICAN] CODE OP MEDICAL ETHICS. CHAPTER I. OF THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS TO THEIR PA- TIENTS, AND OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF PATIENTS TO THEIR PHYSICIANS. Art. I.—Duties of physicians to their patients. § 1. A physician should not only be ever ready to obey the calls of the sick, but his mind ought also to be imbued with the greatness of his mission, and the responsibility he habitually incurs in its discharge. Those obligations are the more deep and enduring, because there is no tribunal other than his own conscience to adjudge penalties for carelessness or neglect. Physicians a should, there- fore, minister to the sick with due impressions of the importance of their office ; reflecting that the ease, the health, and the lives of those committed to their charge, depend on their skill, attention * [See Percival's Medical Ethics, ch. i. § 1.] 2