_10 CODE OF MEDICAL DEONTOLOGY - Article 4.5 A doctor should exercise their profession with the greatest respect for the right to life and for protecting peoples’ and the community’s health. Article 5.1 Every doctor, regardless of specialty or the form of their practice, should provide emergency care to a sick or injured person. Article 5.2 A doctor must not abandon any patient that needs care, not even in catastrophic or epidemic situations, unless obligated to do so by a competent authority or if there is an imminent and inevitable danger to them. Article 5.3 A doctor who legally uses the right to strike or conscientious objection is not exempt from professional obligations toward patients, to whom they must ensure emergency care. Article 6.1 A "medical act" is any lawful activity guided by the lex artis ad hoc carried out by a legitimately trained medical professional, whether it is care, teaching, research, expertise, evaluation activity, inspection, planning, health management, or others. This includes diagnostic or therapeutic acts and acts to relieve suffering, as well as the preservation, promotion, and prevention of health by direct and indirect means.
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