Medical code of ethics in different countries?

Answer 1

I am answering your question from the point of view of a Canadian patient.

Both the national and the provincial Health Ministers in Canada ignore many of those who have been, and who continue to be harmed by inappropriate and/or inadequate medical treatment. Sadly, it can be very unsafe here. It seems that socialized medicine, although it looks good from outside, is really a hideous beast that allows for all SORTS of unethical practice.

What has happened in Canada is that the government pays the doctors, and the people loose hold of control of their money. By paying for our medical, it gives the government and the doctors a lot of latitude to make back room deals. It also means that the CHOICE of which doctor treats you is often something that can more often then not, be out of the patient's hands (if they can even GET treatment). As a result, there is widespread, unchecked prejudice that happens daily in Canada from rich physicians towards patients. Some patients are left untreated and they die or commit suicide. Others are given deadly cocktails that kill them prematurely. Some accept being treated poorly for years, or their entire life. Complaints to Colleges of Physicians are a waste of time and money, for it quickly becomes apparent, that the College will go to any length to protect their peers regardless of the reality that people's lives are being unnecessarily ruined by unchecked ignorance.

Meanwhile, politicians are tossing around "accountability" as their catchphrasefor anyone gullible enough to gobble it up