What duty does the doctor owe to the patient at the scene?

Question

A customer dies at a restaurant while eating even though the help arrives. Later on the owner figures out that there was a doctor in the restaurant during the incident and did nothing to help out. When he was questioned by the police as to why he did not assist to the chocking victim, the doctor stated that he was eating dinner as well and was tired after playing a full day of golf in the sun.

Answer 1

Here is the Oath that that doctor failed to uphold after he took it:



I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.


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Answer 2

This is highly unethical and totally immoral. I don't know what oath that person took, but it certainly wasn't Oath of Hippocrates like everyone else in the medical takes. This is awful and his medical license should be looked at for this behavior. He should be reported immediately by the law inforcement agency that investigated the situation.

Answer 3

I want to have faith that the doc. would do what he could. After all doctors should want to help others.
As to what the doctor HAS to do will vary from one state to the other.
That is a sad sad story. ~:{

Answer 4

he disobeyed the Hippocratic oath that he took when graduated his medical school..

Answer 5

dr.sounds like an idiot