CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION

Surgeons have combined duties to their patients: to protect life and health and to respect autonomy , both to an acceptable - professional standard. The specific duties of surgeons are shown to follow from these: reasonable practice concerning informed consent; confidentiality; decisions not to provide, or to omit, life-sustaining care; surgical research; and the maintenance of good professional standards. The final duty of surgical care is to exercise all these general and specific responsibilities with fairness and justice, and without arbitrary prejudice. Now , at - least partly either enshrined in statute or echoed in the English common law , these duties closely reflect the guidance of the - GMC. ship: protecting the vulnerable and respecting human dignity; and equality . To the extent that the practice of individual sur geons is a reflection of such sustained conduct, they deserve the civil respect that they often receive. To the e xtent that it is not, they should not practise the honourable profession of surgery . CONCLUSION

Surgeons have combined duties to their patients: to protect life and health and to respect autonomy , both to an acceptable - professional standard. The specific duties of surgeons are shown to follow from these: reasonable practice concerning informed consent; confidentiality; decisions not to provide, or to omit, life-sustaining care; surgical research; and the maintenance of good professional standards. The final duty of surgical care is to exercise all these general and specific responsibilities with fairness and justice, and without arbitrary prejudice. Now , at - least partly either enshrined in statute or echoed in the English common law , these duties closely reflect the guidance of the - GMC. ship: protecting the vulnerable and respecting human dignity; and equality . To the extent that the practice of individual sur geons is a reflection of such sustained conduct, they deserve the civil respect that they often receive. To the e xtent that it is not, they should not practise the honourable profession of surgery . CONCLUSION

Surgeons have combined duties to their patients: to protect life and health and to respect autonomy , both to an acceptable - professional standard. The specific duties of surgeons are shown to follow from these: reasonable practice concerning informed consent; confidentiality; decisions not to provide, or to omit, life-sustaining care; surgical research; and the maintenance of good professional standards. The final duty of surgical care is to exercise all these general and specific responsibilities with fairness and justice, and without arbitrary prejudice. Now , at - least partly either enshrined in statute or echoed in the English common law , these duties closely reflect the guidance of the - GMC. ship: protecting the vulnerable and respecting human dignity; and equality . To the extent that the practice of individual sur geons is a reflection of such sustained conduct, they deserve the civil respect that they often receive. To the e xtent that it is not, they should not practise the honourable profession of surgery .