The doctor-patient relationship is examined an emphasis on the comparison between
professional and moral principles. Many therapeutic measures have opposite-directed …

When a patient visits his doctor there is, as well as a spoken dialogue, also an unspoken, or
tacit, dialogue between them. This may not be evident unless that dialogue breaks down …

The debate in this issue of the journal between Professor Downie, a moral philosopher, and
Mr Sieghart, a barrister, centres crucially on the issue of whether or not doctors, lawyers and …

Doctors may be thrust into the difficult situation of treating friends and colleagues. A doctor's
response to this situation is strongly influenced by his or her emotions and by medical …

E inviolability of the doctor-patient relationship has been much in the public press of late. It
has even become a Epoitical issue. In the recent campaign, for example, General …

In their efforts to care for the sick and the dying and to protect and improve the health of the
public, those engaged in the medical, nursing, and allied professions have traditionally been …

Dr Newton has written a paper which I think is interesting and important in its implications for
medical ethics. But some of his arguments and conclusions are understated and ambiguous …

Rejecting the claim that patients have a moralobligation to themselves to preserve their own
health and thus a moral obligation to follow their doctors' medical advice, the Chairnan of the …

A recent mllI-symposium in the Hastings Center Report (April, 1981) was devoted to the
topic of philosophers in the clinical setting. This paper is intended to contribute further to the …

The regimen I adopt shall be for the benefit of my patients according to my ability and
judgment, and not for their hurt or any wrong…. Whatsoever house I enter, there will I go for …