 A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease. But he should not fail, on proper occasions, to give to the friends...  Transaction - Seite 215von Texas Medical Association - 1884Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1904
...Medical Ethics some of the best parts of the old Code of the Association were taken. Percival said :7 A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications,...occasions, to give to the friends of the patient timely warning of danger, when it really occurs, and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary.... | |
 | John William Severin Gouley - 1906 - 368 Seiten
...second chapter, Doctor Percival gives the following rules of conduct respecting prognostications : "A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications; because they savour of empiricism, by 167 magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of... | |
 | 1916
...life may be prolonged and usefulness continued. Percival's advice in this connection is wholesome. "A physician should not be forward to make gloomy...of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his service in the treatment or cure of disease." . . . He should "give to the friends of the patient timely... | |
 | Henry Leopold Elsner - 1916 - 1276 Seiten
...life may be prolonged and usefulness continued. Percival's advice in this connection is wholesome. "A physician should not be forward to make gloomy...of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his service in the treatment or cure of disease." . . . He should "give to the friends of the patient timely... | |
 | 1880
...diminish the authority of the physician, and render him liable to be suspected of interested motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the... | |
 | 1904
...they not only uxert a depressive influence on the invalid, but savour strongly of empiricism by unduly magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease." In short, we find that the teachers of Ethics both in ancient and modern times counsel us to avoid... | |
 | R.B. Baker - 1995 - 241 Seiten
...they not only exert a depressive influence on the invalid, but savour strongly of empiricism by unduly magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease; at the same time, he should not fail to give to the friends of the patient timely notice of actual... | |
 | David G. Satin - 1994 - 512 Seiten
...this issue in his Medical Ethics of 1803, with particular reference to the disclosure of bad news: A Physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications; because they savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment of disease. But... | |
 | Winfried Schleiner - 1995 - 230 Seiten
...dissimulation or silence about expected deterioration of a patient's state of health is recommended: "A physician should not be forward, to make gloomy prognostications, because they savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment of disease" (p.... | |
 | Robert M. Veatch - 2000 - 380 Seiten
...unclouded head, may be essential to the well being, and even to the life, of a fellow-creature. III. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications; because they savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in die treatment or cure of the... | |
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