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Q J Med 2002; 95: 713-715
© 2002 Association of Physicians

Editorial

Conflicts of interest

R.L. Engler

University of California, and Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, USA, e-mail: rengler@ucsd.edu

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For more than 1500 years, the writings of Hippocrates of Cos have served as the ethical guide of the medical profession. At graduation, I pledged, ‘I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone ... I will preserve the purity of my life and my art. In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients.’ The oath states that the physician will always be beneficent, and that all actions will be in the best interest of the patient. Recent developments in clinical research and in the business of clinical medicine in the US suggest that many physicians are no longer able to honour this commitment.

The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects was formed in 1979, following an unethical research project sponsored by the National . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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