ABSTRACT
Ethics is a significant part of life for anybody and health care providers especially. Ethics is the study of moral character and is consistent in the belief that the practice of medicine is based on perfect character and behavior toward another person. In 1847 at the American Medical Association’s first meeting, they adopted the first American code of medical ethics. Hippocrates believed the art of medicine is threefold: to relieve pain, to reduce the violence of disease, and to refrain from trying to cure those whom the disease has conquered, acknowledging that in such cases medicine is powerless. Ethics is a study of morality and defining what is right or wrong. The American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics, similar codes, and the various medical oaths that have been promulgated over time, all have in common a social contract not only between physicians but among physicians, patients, and society.
