Nonmaleficence is the obligation of a physician not to harm the patient. However, complying with these standards, it should be understood, may not always fulfill the moral norms as the codes have “often appeared to protect the profession’s interests more than to offer a broad and impartial moral viewpoint or to address issues of importance to patients and society”. To reduce the vagueness of “accepted role,” physician organizations (local, state, and national) have codified their standards. A pertinent example of particular morality is the physician’s “accepted role” to provide competent and trustworthy service to their patients.
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Particular morality refers to norms that bind groups because of their culture, religion, profession and include responsibilities, ideals, professional standards, and so on. Some moral norms for right conduct are common to human kind as they transcend cultures, regions, religions, and other group identities and constitute common morality (e.g., not to kill, or harm, or cause suffering to others, not to steal, not to punish the innocent, to be truthful, to obey the law, to nurture the young and dependent, to help the suffering, and rescue those in danger).
Normative ethics attempts to answer the question, “Which general moral norms for the guidance and evaluation of conduct should we accept, and why?”. Ethics is a broad term that covers the study of the nature of morals and the specific moral choices to be made.
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