Queries in medical ethics / [William Fraser].

  • Fraser, William, -1888.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Queries in medical ethics / [William Fraser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ticable, after explaining the state of matters to him, and obtaining, or taking for granted, the patient’s consent to the transference. If your further assistance is wished by the practitioner who was pre-engaged, or by the patient with his consent, (which it would probably be, if the case were one of difficulty or danger,) then you ought to remain. As to the remuneration, the answer would be the same as in Query 7. Query 10.—In cases where a surgical opera¬ tion is indicated, which the medical man in at¬ tendance does not feel himself warranted or inclined to undertake, what is the proper course to adopt, and what the proper etiquette to be ob¬ served between or among the medical men con¬ cerned in the treatment of the case ? Ans.—As the great majority of medical practi¬ tioners very properly eschew the performance of the more serious and capital operations in surgery, when the necessity for such an operation is clear and undoubted, or when its expediency has been agreed upon after sufficient consultation, the me¬ dical attendant should, with the acquiescence of the patient, select the person in whose judg¬ ment, experience, dexterity, and other requisite qualifications, he has most confidence. Supposing the person so selected should coincide with him as to the propriety of an operation, the mode and