Which idea is associated with Percival's code?

• A. Profit over patient welfare
• B. Individual honour and service to others
• C. Censorship of dissent
• D. Secrecy at all costs

Answer: (B)

Percival’s code centers on professional integrity and devotion to patient welfare. He argued that medicine should be practiced with honor and that a physician’s primary obligation is to serve the sick, placing the patient’s welfare above personal gain. This emphasis on individual honour and service to others best captures the essence of his ethical stance.

The other options clash with this view: valuing profit over patient welfare contradicts the core aim of serving patients; censorship of dissent and secrecy at all costs misalign with the trust, transparency, and confidentiality balance that underpin professional medical ethics.