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KNMG directives for doctors who perform alternative and complementary treatments and also alternative and additional resources for writing.

KNMG is therefore of the opinion that should be spoken of ' regular ' and ' nietreguliere '

' treatments '.

• With regular treatments, this position referring to methods of

Diagnostics, prevention and treatment which are based on the knowledge,

skills and experience needed for the doctors to obtain and retain title,

that is generally accepted by the profession and form part of the

professional standard. Non-mainstream treatments are methods of

Diagnostics and treatment that fall outside this definition.

• It is inherent in the development of medical science that experimental

treatments take place whose scientific study or

they have returned. The KNMG considers such experimental

treatments only if regular treatments if they are based on

recognised scientific paradigms and are applied within the legal

review framework and the norms and principles of medical scientific

research.

Specific standards for doctors

In line with the General rules of conduct of the KNMG, in particular the

rules of conduct listed below 1.2, 1.3 and 1.7, some doctors include specific

standards.

• Doctors are taken care of, and a rescuer to behave well to

Act respecting the professional standard. This general standard

in the rules of conduct, inter alia, the KNMG spelled out. In the

context of applying non-mainstream treatments are in particular the

following rules of conduct:

-Code of conduct line 1.2: "to anyone who turned to him wendt in his capacity as

arts grants the necessary treatment, guidance, advice and

reviews in accordance with the requirements, who made him on grounds of his profession and

expertise may be asked. ";

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-Behavioral rule 1.3: "the aid must be of good quality by the doctor to

his (…). The doctor keeps his medical knowledge and skills of that part of

the medicine that he practices where possible on levels and delivers to the

development of a contribution. Training or retraining are necessity. ";

-Code of conduct line 1.7: "it is not permitted to apply medicine doctor with

ignore methods for diagnosis and treatment which in General

medical world accepted. "

• Doctors are constantly aware that the Diagnostics, treatments and

opinions that they offer are surrounded with the authority of the training to

doctor/specialist and the doctors-specialists or title.

• A must for every medical treatment according to the professional standard

asked (provisional) medical diagnosis to the starting point.

• Doctors focus in their diagnosis and treatment to the best available

scientific evidence, combined with their clinical expertise and account

taking into account the needs, expectations and experiences of the patient.

• Doctors should inform the patient about the effectiveness, nature, duration and

(side) effects of a treatment. If the doctor (co-) a non-regular

considering treatment, the physician to the patient makes a clear

distinction between regular and non-regular treatments.

• If the State of scientific knowledge on the basis of no rulings can

be on the effectiveness, duration and (side) effects of a by the doctor

proposed or requested by the patient, then informs the doctor the treatment

patient about this.

• The responsibility of the physician is not limited to the provision of

curative treatments. To the professional standard of the regular

medicine belongs also the eye have for the broader wellbeing of the patient,

guiding the patient to existential questions who are summoned by the

disease, empathy, palliative care, terminal care and the provision of solace.

• A patient who rejects indiced regular treatments and non-formal

considering treatments, the doctor pointed out the potential dangers

for his State of health or tweaking it out-regular

treatments. The patient in spite of persisting in the rejection of regular

There are no regular treatments, or treatments available (more), then

the doctor offers no treatments that could damage the patient

harm. Damage must be interpreted broadly in this context. Besides direct physical

damage that is inherent in the treatment, damage also means the

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providing false hope of cure or improvement of the complaints; giving

incorrect or incomplete information on the efficacy of a treatment; the

not or not timely-bets, or discouraging methods of diagnostics and treatment

those within the profession generally accepted; the deny or negate

of on a regular basis in established medical findings concerning the

patient (such as a formal diagnosis). It remains at all times until the

responsibility of the arts belong to the patient to stress the importance of

regular treatments and it continued to refer to.

• Doctors shall ensure that in the file of the patient for careful manner

Note is taken of facts and considerations relating to the

aspects which have been mentioned.

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