Charter, Ordinances and By-laws of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia ...Collins, printer, 1875 - 75 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
66 April 66 July 66 June 66 William Adam Kuhn amendment annually appointed ASHHURST Atlee ballot Benjamin Benjamin Rush Benjamin Say Caspar Wistar CHAPTER Charles circumstances COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS Committee of Publication Committee on Lectures corporation deemed disease DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS ELECTED faculty Fellowship or Associateship George Hall Committee Henry Hewson Hutchinson I.-Duties Isaac ISAAC HAYS John H John Redman JOHN RODMAN PAUL Joseph JOSEPH LEIDY Librarian Library Committee meeting in January ment Michael Leib month Morris motion Mütter Museum Norris obligation Ordinances and By-Laws patient should never pecuniary acknowledgment Pennsylvania Company person PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA practitioner Præses present presiding officer profession question regular ROBERT BRIDGES Samuel Powel Griffitts Secretary semi-annual contributions Sept sick signed the Ordinances Smith STANDING COMMITTEES surgical Thomas D tion Treasurer Vice-President vote William H William Pepper William Shippen
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 36 - Every case committed to the charge of a physician should be treated with attention, steadiness, and humanity. Reasonable indulgence should be granted to the mental imbecility and caprices of the sick. Secrecy and delicacy, when required by peculiar circumstances, should be strictly observed ; and the familiar and confidential intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional visits, should be used with discretion, and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor.
Seite 7 - And also, that they and their successors, by the name of The. Library Company of Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Seite 53 - SEC. 8. A physician, when visiting a sick person in the country, may 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...
Seite 46 - A regular medical education furnishes the only presumptive evidence of professional abilities and acquirements, and 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...
Seite 38 - His counsels, or even remonstrances, will give satisfaction, not offense, if they be proffered with politeness, and evince a genuine love of virtue, accompanied by a sincere interest in the welfare of the person to whom they are addressed.
Seite 53 - ... to the fee, but should resign the patient to the practitioner first engaged. ART. 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.
Seite 55 - As good citizens, it is the duty of physicians to be ever vigilant for the welfare of the community, and to bear their part in sustaining its institutions and burdens; they should also be ever ready to give counsel to the public, in relation to matters especially appertaining to their profession, as on subjects of medical police, public hygiene, and legal medicine.
Seite 35 - Physicians should, therefore, minister to the sick with due impressions of the importance of their office ; reflecting that the ease, the health, and the lives of those committed to their charge, depend on their skill, attention and fidelity. They should study, also, in their deportment, so to unite tenderness with jirmness, and condescension with authority, as to inspire the minds of their patients with gratitude, respect and confidence.
Seite 44 - For, if such nos43 trum be of real efficacy, any concealment regarding it is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and if mystery alone give it value and importance, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice.
Seite 49 - Should an irreconcilable diversity of opinion occur when several physicians are called upon to consult together, the opinion of the majority should be considered as decisive; but if the numbers be equal on each side, then the decision should rest with the attending physician. It may, moreover, sometimes happen, that two physicians cannot agree in their views of the nature of a case, and the treatment to be pursued. This is a circumstance much to be deplored, and should always be avoided...