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The Hippocratic Oath

• I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

• To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug, nor give advice which may cause his death.

• I will preserve the purity of my life and my art.

• In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill doing.

• All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret.

  Duties of Doctors in General

• To maintain the highest standards of professional conduct.
• To practice uninfluenced by motives of profit.
• To use caution while divulging discoveries or new techniques of treatment.
• To certify or testify only those matters with which the doctor has personal experience.
• To ensure that any act oradvice that could weaken physical or mental resistance of an  individual must be used only in the interest of that individual.

Duties of Doctors to the Sick

• Always remember the supreme obligation of preserving life.
• The patient should owe complete loyalty and faith to you and to the resources of medical sciences. Whenever a treatment or examination is beyond the capacity of the doctor, the advice of another doctor should be sought.
• A doctor must always preserve absolute secrecy concerning all he knows about a patient because of the confidence reposed in him.
• Emergency care is a humanitarian duty which must be given unless it is clear that there are others better able to give it.

Duties of Doctors to each other

• A doctor must behave to his colleagues as he would have them behave toward him.
• A doctor must not entice patients from his colleagues.

The following are Unethical Practices

• Any self advertisement or claiming unusual cures.
• Collaboration in any form of medical service in which the doctor does not have professional independence.
• Receipt of any money in connection with services rendered to a patient other than a proper professional fee.