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Doctor Patient Scenario is Changing: So do the Medical Ethics Need a Change Too?

Meely Panda1 , Meely Panda1 , Shasanka Shekhar Panda2

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Indian Journal of Communicable Diseases 3(1):p 33-34, January - June 2017. | DOI: N/A

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 It requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards which are considered a rite of passage for practitioners of medicine in many countries. Today the patient does not consider himself as a patient. The law does not see him as a patient. He has rather become more of a consumer; ready to sue you anytime anyplace for the deficiency of his services; services which he thinks are sold over the counter by the physician and his team. If the entire scenario has taken up the form of a barter system, where components like compulsion and duty are gaining prominence over humanity is it not high time that we doctors too start seeing him as a consumer?

Keywords: Doctor; Patient; Ethics.

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