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

I go to the Drs to receive an informed decision of my health knowing they have been trained to give an informed decision, so i need to listen to their advice and cautions.please dont take away their freedom of conscience.

For a doctor to lose his licence on the whim of a patient or their family, with no right to explain the medical needs that his training has diagnosed, is putting culture above medical health.

Conjoint Associate Professor Pain Medicine Specialist Physician

Please let doctors have an individual say.

All the doctors know their Ethicals and must be free to discuss with patient about what must be done and useful to the patient

The proposals are very concerning as the patient and family could insist on some totally unreasonable course of action and the doctor would not be practising good medicine and their hands would be tied or they would have to do what they consider not helpful to the patient or worse. It seems their training would be pointless and they would not be allowed to use their brains if they cannot give informed advice.

These proposals appear to have been drafted without consultation with accredited representatives of the medical profession, such as the royal colleges and the AMA. If so, the Minister of Health should throw the proposals out without further ado, and arrange appropriate discussions.

A doctor is not a machine nor a robot but a person with intellect and reason and they should be free to act within their conscience.

First do no harm.

Ethics does not revolve around what the patient demands but rather what conventional professional wisdom embraces and therefore a doctor must be free to ask any questions the doctor can justify as relevant.

I say "no" to anything contravening the Hippocratic Oath.