Code of Ethics

As an AMCG Consultant, I hereby agree and commit to the following principles:

• Use only legal and ethical means in the provision of care to my patients.
• Recognize and treat within the scope of my license and uphold the laws and regulations relating to the practice of Asian Medicine.
• Provide impartial patient care, offering no special privileges by treating those seeking my services in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner.
• Accept no personal compensation from any party that would influence or require special consideration in the provision of care to any patient.
• Maintain the confidentiality of my patients and professional boundaries at all times.
• Allow my patients to fully participate in decisions related to their healthcare by documenting and keeping them informed of my treatments and outcomes.
• Render the highest quality of care and make timely referrals to other health care professionals as may be appropriate.
• Advance my knowledge through education, training and research to maintain excellence and high ethical standards in our profession.
• Use every opportunity to improve public understanding of the role of the Asian Medicine Practitioner.
• Support Asian medicine’s access to all people and its growth in the broad spectrum of global healthcare.
• Participate in outreach in my community.

Chinese Hippocratic Oath

“A Great Physician should not pay attention to status, wealth or age; neither should he question whether the particular person is attractive or unattractive, whether he is an enemy or friend, whether he is a Chinese or a foreigner, or finally, whether he is uneducated or educated. He should meet everyone on equal grounds. He should always act as if he were thinking of his close relatives.”

凡大醫治病，必當安神定志，無欲無求，先發大慈惻隱之心。誓願普救含靈之苦”

“Whenever eminent physicians treat an illness, they must quiet the spirit and settle the will, they must be free of wants and desires, and they must first develop a heart full of great compassion and empathy. They must pledge to devote themselves completely to relieving the suffering of all sentient beings.”

—孫思邈 Sun Simiao, Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang I.2