 | John Foote - 1919 - 452 pages
...summarized in Dr. Richard Cabot's statement : " When you are thinking of telling a lie," he says, " ask yourself whether it is simply and solely for the...profit, you can go ahead with a clear conscience." Of course this applies only to statements which will not injure any other individual — as answers... | |
 | Robert M. Veatch - 2004 - 340 pages
...student, when his teacher had instructed him as follows: When you are thinking of telling a lie ... ask yourself whether it is simply and solely for the...profit, you can go ahead with a clear conscience. (Cabot 1978, p. 189) This was the standard, paternalistic position taken not only by physicians in... | |
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When you are thinking of telling a lie,' said the teacher, 'ask yourself whether it is simply and solely for the patient's benefit that you are going to tell it. If you are sure that you are acting for his good and not for your own profit, you can go... 