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Re: CHP "...standards for ethical conduct..."
Wes -- Well put. Ron
On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Wesley M. Dunn wrote:
>
> 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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