Abstract
Ethics and collegiality in medical profession requires a doctor to treat fellow professional as brother and sister. Ethnography was employed to study the status of collegiality in public sector hospital, where an ailing doc-tor sought clinical care from a physician. The former, on account of the latter’s cold reception and behaviour, reacted with his blood pressure shooting-up. The communication gap led the ailing doctor, who com-plied by coming to the laboratory, was perturbed, making him firstly unfit and later decided not to undergo the prescribed test. While Pakistan Medical and Dental Council have the responsibility to oversee, the under-graduate medical education and training should also lay greater emphasis on ethics in medical practice and healthy collegiality in the medical profession.
Highlights
Fellow doctors are like “sisters and brothers”
There is no study undertaken in Pakistan as to how doctors coming to public sector hospitals for clinical care are treated by fellow doctors
We present a case of how a senior doctor was treated in a specialised public sector medical institution in Lahore
Summary
Fellow doctors are like “sisters and brothers”. To this effect, physician makes declaration while entering into the medical profession.[1] Ethics in medical practice require that “respect and gratitude” should be given to the seniors and teachers in the profession.[2,3] There is no study undertaken in Pakistan as to how doctors coming to public sector hospitals for clinical care are treated by fellow doctors. An impression prevails that unethical conduct in clinical practice is widespread.[4] In this treatise, we present a case of how a senior doctor was treated in a specialised public sector medical institution in Lahore
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