Heres an excerpt from an interesting article: Ethics in Modern Practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D. "Huai Yuan wrote a warning to physicians of his day, in a book dating from 1808 (7): In medical practice one cannot act at one’s own discretion. Patients entrust physicians with the decision over their life and their death….[the physician] searches for the causes and considers the consequences. He knows the normal and understands the changes….A physician plans in detail and thinks comprehensively. He observes a disease and takes precautions against it to avoid a second. He is glad over a success and yet he is aware that one cannot repose on this…Those, however, who surrender to fashionable trends do not carry out their practice conscientiously. They place themselves in the greatest light and make use of the need of others in order to appropriate their material goods to themselves….A physician has to love and respect himself; only then will he, when he faces a grave disease, possess enough trust in himself. I have studied at great length and in any diagnosis of a disease, I proceed with exactitude and conscientiousness; how could I carelessly acquit myself of that which others have entrusted to me and which I have promised to them?....Every patient has to consider the practicing physician a trustworthy person. A physician may examine the respectable [methods] without any further consideration. Yet, if he meets with the disreputable, he is first to assure himself of all the details related to it before making a decision." itmonline.org/articles/ethics/ethics.htm
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:30:27 +0000
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