PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT AND STANDARDS OF PRACTITIONER IN AYURVEDA
Dr. Richa Sharma* and Dr. Anita Sharma
ABSTRACT
Ayurveda is a very distinct medical science and has some unique features. Held in great respect, and used for Ayurvedic training even today, the early Ayurvedic treatises offer many guidelines on good medical practice. They define what made a physician a good physician, or a patient a good patient. They describe the formal procedures of medical education and lay out the rules for subsequent practice. They determine the duties or obligations doctors and patients had to each other, providing a catalogue of rules of professional conduct that physicians were bound to, including guidelines on appropriate interactions both with patients as well as with colleagues otherwise the physician shall constitute professional misconduct rendering him/her liable for disciplinary action.Translating and discussing the original Sanskrit texts of the core Ayurvedic treatises, the book offers a survey and analysis of the Ayurvedic moral discourses on professional conduct in a medical setting and explores in what relationship the ethical tenets found in the Ayurvedic works stand. For legal restrictions the physician shall observe the laws of our classics in regulating the practice of medicine and shall also not assist others to evade such laws. He should be cooperative in observance and enforcement of sanitary laws and regulations in the interest of public health. Therefore this review article attempts to explain the virtue ethics which has long provided fruitful resources for the study of issues in medical ethics. In particular, study of the moral virtues of the good doctor.
Keywords: Professional misconduct, ethics, sanitary law.
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