The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Code of Ethics is a document that applies to all physicians who practice osteopathically throughout the continuum of their careers, from enrollment in osteopathic medical college/school through postgraduate training and the practice of osteopathic medicine. 它体现了作为谨慎的医生的指导原则. 它寻求超越经济, 政治, 还有宗教偏见, 与病人打交道时, 的医生, 和社会. It is flexible in nature in order to permit the AOA to consider all circumstances, 包括预期的和未预期的. The physician/patient relationship and the professionalism of the physician are the basis for this document.
The AOA has formulated this Code to guide its member physicians in their professional lives. The standards presented are designed to address the osteopathic physician's ethical and professional responsibilities to patients, 对社会, 向民政事务管理局, 对参与医疗保健的其他人和对自己.
进一步, the AOA has adopted the position that physicians should play a major role in the development and instruction of medical ethics.
第一节. The physician shall keep in confidence whatever she/he may learn about a patient in the discharge of professional duties. 信息 shall be divulged by the physician when required by law or when authorized by the patient.
第二节. The physician shall give a candid account of the patient's condition to the patient or to those responsible for the patient's care.
第三节. A physician-patient relationship must be founded on mutual trust, cooperation, and respect. 因此，病人必须有完全的自由来选择她/他的医生. The physician must have complete freedom to choose patients whom she/he will serve. 然而, the physician should not refuse to accept patients for reasons of discrimination, 包括, 但不限于, 病人的种族, creed, color, sex, 国家的起源, 性取向, 性别认同, 或残疾. 在紧急情况下，医生应该提供她/他的服务.
第四节 医生抛弃病人是没有道理的. The physician shall give due notice to a patient or to those responsible for the patient's care when she/he withdraws from the case so that another physician may be engaged.
第五节. A physician should make a reasonable effort to partner with patients to promote their health and shall practice in accordance with the body of systematized and scientific knowledge related to the healing arts. A physician shall maintain competence in such systematized and scientific knowledge through study and clinical applications.
第六节. The osteopathic medical profession has an obligation 对社会 to maintain its high standards and, 因此, 不断调节自身. A substantial part of such regulation is due to the efforts and influence of the recognized local, state and national associations representing the osteopathic medical profession. A physician should maintain membership in and actively support such associations and abide by their rules and regulations.
第七节. 根据法律，医生可以做广告, but no physician shall advertise or solicit patients directly or indirectly through the use of matters or activities which are false or misleading.
8节. A physician shall not hold forth or indicate possession of any degree recognized as the basis for licensure to practice the healing arts unless he is actually licensed on the basis of that degree in the state or other jurisdiction in which she/he practices. A physician shall designate her/his professional degree in all professional uses of her/his name. 专科实习指征, 专业学会会员资格, and related matters shall be governed by rules promulgated by the American Osteopathic Association.
9节. A physician should not hesitate to seek consultation whenever she/he believes it is in the best interest of the patient.
第十节. In any dispute between or among physicians involving ethical or organizational matters, the matter in controversy should first be referred to the appropriate arbitrating bodies of the profession.
11节. In any dispute between or among physicians regarding the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, 主治医师对最后的决定负有责任, 符合任何适用的医院规章制度.
12节. Any fee charged by a physician shall compensate the physician for services actually rendered. 转诊病人的专业费用不得分割.
13节. 医生应尊重法律. When necessary a physician shall attempt to help to formulate the law by all proper means in order to improve patient care and public health.
14节. 除遵守上述道德标准外, a physician shall recognize a responsibility to participate in community activities and services.
15节. It is considered sexual misconduct for a physician to have sexual contact with any patient with whom a physician-patient relationship currently exists.
16节. 医生的性骚扰被认为是不道德的. Sexual harassment is defined as physical or verbal intimation of a sexual nature involving a colleague or subordinate in the workplace or academic setting, 当这样的行为造成不合理的, 令人生畏的, 充满敌意或冒犯性的工作场所或学术环境.
17节. 不时地, industry may provide some AOA members with gifts as an inducement to use their products or services. 因这些礼品而使用这些产品和服务的会员, rather than simply for the betterment of their patients and the improvement of the care rendered in their practices, 应被视为以不道德的方式行事.
18节. A physician shall not intentionally misrepresent himself/herself or his/her 研究 work in any way.
19节. 参与研究时, 医生应遵守现行法律, 美国的法规和标准, 如果研究是在美国以外进行的, 法律, regulations and standards applicable to 研究 in the nation where the 研究 is conducted. This standard shall apply for physician involvement in 研究 at any level and degree of responsibility, 包括, 但不限于, 研究, design, 资金, 作为检查和/或治疗提供者参与, 监督其他工作人员的研究, 为任何目的以任何形式分析数据及公布结果.
本文档最后更新于2016年7月24日.
