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

Just because culture can charge, human biology hasn't. Moreover it's biologically impossible to change your sex. In the best interest of patients, we must treat them accordingly. Feelings don't change facts

Doctor's ethical and principled decisions should not be compromised or put under pressure by cultural practices that endanger human life. They already have a working code of conduct that benefits all cultures and humanity as a whole. Leave well enough alone!

By moving to eliminate a doctor’s conscience when making decisions on a patient’s health we’re moving to a point when students who have a good moral conscience will be discouraged from pursuing a medical degree so surely we should rather be encouraging young people to attain to their highest potential & hence provide more doctors for our vast country.

This is a disgrace to democracy, free choice and liberty.

I believe doctors should have the right to express there view to the patient and family without fear of losing registration. Phil Kelly

The proposed changes are dangerous to good medical practice and should not be accepted.

Democratic Freedom for our doctors.

The proposed changes would be dangerous to good medical practice. A patient or a patient's family could then demand surgical operations and other medical treatments, regardless of medical risk, on the basis of cultural wishes. If doctors refused they could be unregistered for not following the code of conduct.

Why has a Dr who has already given a lethal injection to a patient ,not struck off the list, instead of potentially going after Dr's who would never commit an act of harm against the defenceless and the vulnerable. Euthanasia will cause harm to the patient and doctor. Let the law and Oath abiding Dr's do their job, that they are already capable of doing.

Should a DR treat a Man as a women re HORMONAL Decease's ? EG Menopause?this would be MALPRACTICE if the Patient suffers results of WRONG drug for His Gender , could the Dr be sued?

Doctors ethical principles and code of conduct should never be compromised by cultural or religious beliefs.

I really need to know that My Doctor has my well being as the priority in his decision making process. The treatment/medications he administer must not be harmful even if the cultural believe or my family believe to be different. Eg. if it's unsafe to administer penicillin to me I do not want that treatment to be administered to my system under any circumstances not even if my culture or my wife want to do that because that will kill me.

Doctors should be working according to the Hippocratic Oath and not be placed in any compromising situation and go against what they think is best for the patient or what they were trained for.

Cultural sensitivity runs both ways - medical professionals must be allowed to practice with integrity and without coercion.

The proposed changes would disimpower doctors of the ethical principles they have committed to in the Hippocratic Oath that they act with a clear conscience according to good medical practice to do no harm to their patients.I respectfully request that the current Code of Conduct remain unchanged.

This is Australia! any cultural change Must be from there's to ours, and to accept our way of living. if they want to come here. I accept them coming here to have a new and better life, but they have to respect and live by our cultural laws, as we would have to do if we went to their home country, we would have to respect their cultural laws over there. I say keep things as they are and don't change a thing.

The proposed changes are worrying. They should not be accepted as they are inconsistent with good medical practice. We need to know that doctors abide by the ethical principles of the Hippocratic Oath or Code of Conduct.

These changes would be totally unacceptable & insane to put it bluntly.

I can see the value in respecting beliefs, but to remove a doctors medical training and experience from the equation is a major step backwards. I see the doctor in a very vulnerable position if the family change their minds half way through. All so the is the chance of a vulnerable person being damaged by relatives when they are temporarily unable to speak for them selves.

These proposed changes are alarming, cutting right across the value of the current Code of Conduct, professional Medical Clinicians' standards, wisdom in decision making and freedom of Doctors' conscience. The current Code of Conduct must stand!