Medical etiquette: handbook of elementary deontology / Translated from the 2nd French edition by W.P. Grant, with a preface by Sir Dyce Duckworth.

  • Surbled, Georges, 1855-
Date:
1910
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Credit: Medical etiquette: handbook of elementary deontology / Translated from the 2nd French edition by W.P. Grant, with a preface by Sir Dyce Duckworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    desire to be a living force, and to redeem everyday honour; therefore we return to true principles, and place Ethics on its original foundation. Sooner or later the Schools must return to those principles with us, if they value their prestige and wish to main- tain their authority. At last our colleagues receive ethical teaching, thanks to the Post-Graduate Medi- cal School. Let us hope they will profit by it! Their seniors have not had the chance of it. We have not received the necessary education in ethics and have had to train ourselves. What has the Faculty taught us? It has said nothing to us of our duties; it has cast us raw, ignorant and unprepared into a troublesome world, unsettled both by col- leagues and patients; it has not warned us of the pitfalls and dangers which await us there; it has not told us what we must do or leave undone. We have been compelled to train ourselves with many fears and failures. How many have not actualised their moral education? How many have perverted or