Transactions of the Medical Association of Georgia at Its ... Annual Meeting ..., Svazek 47

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Medical Association of Georgia, 1896
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Strana 327 - emergencies, for which no professional man should be unprepared, a steady hand, an acute eye, and an unclouded head may be essential to the well-being and even to the life of a fellow creature. § 3. It is derogatory to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements or private cards, or
Strana 330 - ought to be the only acknowledged right of an individual to the exercise and honors of his profession. Nevertheless, as in consultations the good of the patient is the sole object in view, and this is often dependent on personal confidence, no intelligent, regular practitioner, who has a license to practice from some medical
Strana 335 - ARTICLE VI. OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PHYSICIANS. § 1. Diversity of opinion and opposition of interest may, in the medical, as in other professions, sometimes occasion controversy, and even contention. Whenever such cases unfortunately occur, and can not be immediately terminated, they should be referred to the arbitration of a sufficient number of physicians, or a courtmedical. § 2. As
Strana 323 - patient because the case is deemed incurable ; for his attendance may continue to be highly useful to the patient, and comforting to the relatives around him, even in the last period of a fatal malady, by alleviating pain and other symptoms, and by soothing mental anguish. To decline attendance under such
Strana 335 - be desired to see a neighboring patient who is under the regular direction of another physician, in consequence of some sudden change or aggravation of symptoms. The conduct to be pursued on such an occasion, is to give advice adapted to present circumstances; to interfere no further than is absolutely necessary with the general plan of
Strana 331 - 5. The utmost punctuality should be observed in the visits of physicians when they are to hold consultations together; and this is generally practicable, for society has been considerate enough to allow the plea of a professional engagement to take precedence of all others, and to be an ample reason for the relinquishment of any present occupation; but, as
Strana 335 - treatment; to assume no further direction, unless it be expressly desired; and, in this last case, to request an immediate consultation with the practitioner previously employed. § 9. 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 physician can never be supported as an exclusively
Strana 335 - be immediately terminated, they should be referred to the arbitration of a sufficient number of physicians, or a courtmedical. § 2. As a peculiar reserve must be maintained by physicians towards the public, in regard to professional matters, and as there
Strana 322 - none of the privacies of personal and domestic life, no infirmity of disposition or flaw of character observed during professional attendance should ever be divulged by the physician, except when he is imperatively required to do so. The force and
Strana 334 - skill. § 5. When a physician is called to an urgent case, because the family attendant is not at hand, he ought, unless his assistance in consultation be desired, to resign the care of the patient to the latter immediately on his arrival.

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