Protect “Good Medical Practice” in Australia: safeguard the Medical Board Code of Conduct.

An alternative is the Medical Board of Australia recommends GPs give a referral to another medical practitioner that is comfortable with any relevant 'cultural sensitive' procedures. As opposed to imposing on GPs/Medical Practitioners processes that conflict with their personal humanity.

This is a horrifying proposal for older people and also compromises Doctors' Hippocratic oath.

Our Medical Practitioners have always been held in high regard Good medical practice is for qualified Medical Practitioners to determine. They are already held to a high standard. The "status quo" should be maintained. Freedom of conscience should be available to all Medical Practitioners.

The Hippocratic Oath is all that's needed. "Don't fix what ain't broke!"

I believe that the proposed changes oppose the Hippocratic oath and threaten good medical practice. I worked in clinical medicine for 30years and believe these changes oppose all good medicine and common sense.

Doctors must have a free conscience to give what they consider is the best medical advice and to reject "cultural" suggestions that they consider medically harmful or unnecessary.

Keep the Hippocratic Oath intact. Remember the sixth commandment- “Thou shalt not kill”.

I believe we need to protect 'Good Medical Practice' in Australia and to safeguard the Medical Board Code of Conduct.

As a retired nurse, i am dismayed to see the proposed changes to the Medical Code of Conduct. It takes away doctors freedom of conscience, endangers patients who are unable to speak up for themselves, and may prevent doctors from treating patients in the way their training and experience best dictate.

Let’s stay with reality.

Doctors must be kept free from outside pressures that would seek to over-ride what is medical desirable.

'culturally relevant' is open to serious mis-use and would threaten the Hippocratic Oath with potentially devastating consequences for individuals, for the medical profession and for society

The changes suggested are clearly not appropriate to good medical practice - and are therefore completely unacceptable.

Disease does not respect "cultural preferences," and attempting to force such preferences onto the medical profession may impede scientifically appropriate treat emnt

The 'slippery slope' has become a cliff! God help this planet and its people because politicians never will.

Doctors' responsibility is to determine what is best for their patients. Any imposition on their judgement undermines their duty.

Doctors should be free to give their best professional advice without fear of interference.

Our Dr's take an oath of 'do no harm'. Altering a person's gender is damaging a body that is a functioning entity. Who knows if in the future a child or adult may change their attitude to the function of their body. If the body has been changed permanently to not function as the gender it was born as, then will the Dr concerned be liable for damage to that person? Just because a person feels a certain emotion at a time in their life doesn't mean that they will always feel that way. Also why do we constantly hear about people taking medication to enable them to change their gender but there doesn't seem to be any encouragement for these people to have treatment to encourage them to be the gender they were born as. Drs must be allowed to guide their patients to accept treatment that the Medical training the Drs have has shown them to be in the best interests of their patients

Doctors abiding by the Hippocratic Oath or Code of Conduct will no longer be guaranteed if you make these changes to the code.

It is of deep concern when the practice of medicine is under threat from fashionable ideologies. Doctors should be allowed to practise their skills to the best of their ability and following the dictates of their conscience, without the fear of punishment.