title: Medical deontology, meetings, journals, candidacy for higher posts and how to better enjoy life.
abstract: Unfortunately, today few physicians care about medical deontology and medical ethics, that is how to behave and respect others when exercising our medical profession. Some of us may not show the care and kindness we should show towards our students or the due respect to our senior colleagues. Occasionally, when examining our patients we may not pay the proper attention to their problems, being tired from work overload. Another issue of deontology is medical meetings. Do they offer us enough knowledge or mainly pleasure? Is our curriculum vitae comprised by useful to society and to medicine original or confirmatory research work? Few examples to illustrate what the situation is at present are included in this paper. Our financial success in practice should not compete with the "old" Hippocratic oath and ideals. The pursuit of happiness in our life is not achieved through untruthfulness, dishonesty or only high financial status. "The Lancet"mentioned long ago (1969; September 27; 681-4) a phrase by John Keats: "Truth is beauty‥this only exists on Earth and this is what we need to know".
authors.affiliation: Professor Emeritus, 51 Hermou Str., PC 546 23 Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. fgrammat@auth.gr.
authors.forename: Philip C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Grammaticos
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006625:Hippocratic Oath; D006801:Humans; D018156:Journalism, Medical; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics; D057181:Pleasure / Q000941:ethics*