While industry is coming around to dealing decisively with the ethical issues of their sponsorship and support of the medical profession, the profession itself has also been proactive in dealing with the issue, writes Lloyd Mudiwa.
Prof Anthony Cunningham, former Medical Council member (2004-2012), outlines the evolution of regulation of the medical profession in Ireland and of the Medical Council’s Ethical Guides, which he believes have served the profession well since 1981.
Eye doctors have been warned to exclude any personal bias towards their own hospitals or clinics, in new guidelines from the Irish College of Ophthalmologists.
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