Re: CHP "...standards for ethical conduct..."

["Wesley M. Dunn" <WDUNN@brc1.tdh.state.tx.us>]

This is obviously a false arguement.  The purposes and activities of
the AAHP is not necessarily the same as how those purposes and
activities are carried out OR the purposes and activities of the
officers of the AAHP.

In fact, the statement could be read as:
The member of the AAHP has a responsibility to ensure the AAHP
operates in a proper manner to ensure the purposes and activities of
the AAHP are properly performed.


Wes

> Date:          Sun, 15 Oct 95 21:49:50 -0500
> Reply-to:      radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> From:          Rich Oesterling <ogr@inel.gov>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject:       Re: CHP "...standards for ethical conduct..."

>
> To reiterate, article I.A states:
>
> "The CHP shall support the purposes and activities of the American
> Academy of Health Physics (or the Academy)."
>
> In this regulations and standards bound profession, the operative word is
> "shall".  In order to comply with this requirement, one *must* perform
> the identified action.  Thus, if one accepts this statement as
> representing "ethical" conduct, then the following few examples would be
> "unethical":
>
> *  Writing a letter to the _HPS Newsletter_ criticizing the AAHP for,
> say, its inaction on licensure.
>
> *  Sponsoring or, worse, running as a write-in candidate for AAHP office.
>
> *  Voting against, or even failing to vote for, a proposal made by the AAHP.
>

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