Duties of Doctors

To maintain the highest standards of professional conduct. To practice uninfluenced by motives of profit. To use caution while divulging discoveries or new techniques of treatment. To certify or testify only those matters with which the doctor has personal experience. To ensure that any act oradvice that could weaken physical or mental resistance of an individual must be used only in the interest of that individual.
Always remember the supreme obligation of preserving life. The patient should owe complete loyalty and faith to you and to the resources of medical sciences. Whenever a treatment or examination is beyond the capacity of the doctor, the advice of another doctor should be sought. A doctor must always preserve absolute secrecy concerning all he knows about a patient because of the confidence reposed in him.
Emergency care is a humanitarian duty which must be given unless it is clear that there are others better able to give it. A doctor must behave to his colleagues as he would have them behave toward him. A doctor must not entice patients from his colleagues. In the conflict between the ethical guidelines and law, Parliament should make a clear doctors’ public duty of confidentiality.
However, in the present situation, doctors should be guided by three major principles. First, disclosure must be limited either to the authority nominated by statute or with a need to know. Secondly, in respect of autonomy, doctors should attempt to persuade the patients to report the matter themselves. Finally, disclosure must be justifiable on the ethical guidelines of a condition being of sufficient seriousness before taking action.