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GMC guidelines
The duties of a doctor registered with the General Medical Coun-
cil include:
1.
Make care of your patient your first concern.
2.
Treat every patient politely and considerately.
3.
Give patients information in a way they can understand.
4.
Keep your professional knowledge and skills up to date.
5.
Recognize the limits of your professional competence.
6.
Be honest and trustworthy.
7.
Respect and protect confidential information.
8.
Make sure that your personal beliefs do not prejudice your pa-
tients’ care.
9.
Act quickly to protect patients from risk if you have good reason
to believe that you or your colleague may not be fit to practice.
5. Give your personal opinion about the following bioethical
issues:
Euthanasia
Should the medical profession help the terminally ill to end their
lives when they choose?
Genetic engineering
Should we permit an embryo to be cloned – copied exactly – to
replace a child who has died?
Should parents be able to select the genetic makeup of their chil-
dren to produce so-called designer babies?
Human fertility
IVF – in vitro fertilization – has made it possible for infertile
women to have children, but should this include women long past the
normal age of childbearing?
Embryos can be frozen and implanted in the mother at a later date
but should this require the consent or permission of both parents if the
marriage has broken down?
What are the rights of a surrogate mother, one who carries a child
for a woman who is unable to do so, over that child?
Transplant surgery
Who should give consent for the removal of body parts for trans-
plant surgery?