Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An introduction to the UK legal system
- 3 An introduction to medical ethics
- 4 Rights, and the Human Rights Act, 1998
- 5 Consent
- 6 Negligence
- 7 Confidentiality, and access to medical records
- 8 Abortion
- 9 Products liability
- 10 Research
- 11 Death and organ procurement
- 12 Professional regulation
- 13 Resource allocation
- Appendix: Important legal cases
- Index
12 - Professional regulation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An introduction to the UK legal system
- 3 An introduction to medical ethics
- 4 Rights, and the Human Rights Act, 1998
- 5 Consent
- 6 Negligence
- 7 Confidentiality, and access to medical records
- 8 Abortion
- 9 Products liability
- 10 Research
- 11 Death and organ procurement
- 12 Professional regulation
- 13 Resource allocation
- Appendix: Important legal cases
- Index
Summary
‘To hold him, who has taught me this art, as equal to my parents, and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage, and to teach them this art if they desire to learn it without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me, and to pupils who have signed the covenant and who have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else.’
– Hippocratic OathCan anyone call themselves a doctor? No, according to Section 49(1) of the Medical Act, 1983:
‘any person who wilfully and falsely pretends to be or takes or uses the name or title of physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner or apothecary, or any name, title, addition or description implying that he is registered under any provision of this act … shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine.’
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004