The Medical police and rules and regulations of the Boston Medical Association, v.2, 1864, Volume 2D. Clapp, 1864 |
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Aaron Dexter William accoucheur Asa Bullard John Benjamin Shurtleff John Blake BOSTON MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Bullard John G charge Charles D Charles Jarvis Lemuel D. H. Storer Danforth Isaac Rand Daniel David Townsend Thomas detention Dixwell James Jackson dollar Enoch Hale Ephraim Buck Faculty fession Gamage John Randall gentleman George H George Hayward gratuitous services Henry G honor Horace Bean William hydrocele Isaac Rand John Jacob Bigelow Jacob Gates John Jeffries Charles Jarvis John Gorham John Homans John Jeffries Charles John W John Ware John Warren Thomas Joseph Joshua Josiah labor Lane Lemuel Hayward David Mason Warren Massachusetts Medical Society Nathaniel operations Osgood Parker physician or surgeon practitioner profession professional proper racter Rand John Jeffries refusal or neglect Resigned Robert RULES AND REGULATIONS Samuel Adams Secretary Shattuck sick special meeting Standing Committee subsequent visits Thomas Danforth Asa visit was four Warren Thomas Welsh William E William Spooner John Winslow Lewis
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Page 7 - A remedy may occur to one which did not to another ; and a physician may want resolution, or a confidence in his own opinion, to prescribe a powerful but precarious remedy, on which, however, the life of his patient may depend ; in this case a concurrent opinion may fix his own. But when such mutual confidence is wanting, a consultation had better be declined, especially if there is reason to believe that sentiments delivered with openness are to be communicated abroad or to the family concerned...
Page 10 - Some general rules should be adopted by the faculty, in every town or district, relative to pecuniary acknowledgments from their patients ; and it should be deemed a point of honor to adhere to these rules with as much uniformity as varying circumstances will admit.
Page 9 - ... others. For, if such nostrum 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. It is also reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of patent or secret medicines, or in any way to promote the use of them.
Page 6 - ... and by soothing mental anguish. To decline attendance, under such circumstances, would be sacrificing to fanciful delicacy, and mistaken liberality, that moral duty, which is independent of, and far superior to, all pecuniary consideration. 6. Consultations should be promoted in difficult or protracted cases, as they give rise to confidence, energy, and more enlarged views in practice.
Page 6 - In consultations, theoretical discussions should be avoided, as occasioning perplexity and loss of time. For there may be much diversity of opinion concerning speculative points, with perfect agreement in those modes of practice which are founded, not on hypothesis, but on experience and observation.
Page 24 - For minor operations, such as excision of tonsils, removal of nasal polypi, tapping for hydrocele or for ascites, opening abscesses, catheterism, stitching recent wounds, cupping, passing setons, excision of wens, &c., $5.00 to $25.00.
Page 6 - On such occasions, no rivalship or jealousy should be indulged ; candor, justice, and all due respect, should be exercised towards the physician who first attended; and, as he may be presumed to be best acquainted with the patient and his family, he should deliver all the medical directions, as agreed upon. It should be the province, however, of the senior consulting physician to propose the necessary questions to the sick. The consulting physician is never to visit without the attending one, unless...
Page 8 - Diversity of opinion and opposition of interest, may, in the medical as in other professions, sometimes occasion controversy and even contention. Whenever such cases unfortunately occur, and cannot be immediately terminated, they should be referred to the arbitration of a sufficient number of physicians, or a courtmedical.
Page 10 - A wealthy physician should not give advice gratis to the affluent ; because his doing so is an injury to his professional brethren, The office of a physician can never be supported as an exclusively beneficent one ; and it is defrauding, in some degree, the common funds for its support, when fees are dispensed with, which might justly be claimed.
Page 25 - ... and injection of ovarian cysts, reduction of dislocations or fractures of large bones, amputation of fingers or toes, tracheotomy, removal of small tumors not involving important organs, passing catheter in cases of obstruction, ligature of arteries of secondary size, &c., $25.00 to $100.00.