Question 87 · LEK · Quality and methods of treatment
The Minister of Health issued a regulation in which the treatment of some disease was described. 6 months later a doctor read a scientific publication that without doubts stated that the treatment described in the regulation is harmful to patients. According to the Code of Medical Ethics the doctor should:
- A. treat patients according to the regulation until its amendment.
- B. refuse to treat patients until the amendment of the regulation.
- C. refuse to treat patients invoking the conscience clause.
- D. treat patients according to the accessible medical knowledge against the regulation.
- E. Code of Medical Ethics does not refer to such situations.
Hint
Think about what the Code says binds the doctor's choice of methods: administrative instructions, or the patient's good and current medical knowledge?
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