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...knows for sure how the practice of professional courtesy started. But it may well have begun with the 2,300-year-old Hippocratic oath, which exhorts physicians to regard other doctors as brothers. Modern standards reinforce the custom. The A.M.A.'s code of ethics, which urges physicians not to treat themselves or their families, holds that they should cheerfully provide care for other doctors and their dependents...
Looking tense and haggard, Nixon announced that all members of his staff will, after all, appear voluntarily before Ervin's committee if they are asked to do so. They will testify under oath and in public, "and they will answer fully all proper questions." He said they will, however, retain the right to refuse to answer any question that infringes on Nixon's concept of Executive privilege...
...coexist. The doctor's relationship with his patient is of a dual character. As Plato suggests, the physician is a friend to his patient as both a technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred age-old injunctions to confidentiality and non-criticism inside the medical profession are not always the most pragmatic or desirable self-regulations...
...production office had made a mistake and scheduled a segment of the "Bold Ones" on the wrong set. The men in the white coats either fidget nervously in the witness box, or put on a knowledgeable and worldly air, but the M.D.s feel no better under oath than the lawyer feels under the knife...
Wrong. The President will allow his staff members to respond to written questions from Ervin's committee. "But you cannot put a piece of paper under oath and cross-examine it," Ervin pro tested. Later, in a show of compromise, Nixon said that he would let some aides be questioned personally, but not un der oath and not in public. Yet Ervin in sists that, if the truth about Watergate is to emerge, the public - and not just a few Senators - has the right to "observe the demeanor of the witnesses and to judge their credibility...