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It Shall Be the Ideal, the Resolve, and the Duty of the Members of the American Optometric Association:
- TO KEEP the visual welfare of the patient uppermost at all times;
- TO PROMOTE in every possible way, in collaboration with this Association, better care of the visual needs of mankind;
- TO ENHANCE continuously their educational and technical proficiency to the end that their patients shall receive the benefits of all acknowledged improvements in visual care;
- TO SEE that no person shall lack for visual care, regardless of his financial status;
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TO ADVISE the patient whenever consultation with an optometric colleague or reference for other professional care seems advisable;
- TO HOLD in professional confidence all information concerning a patient and to use such data only for the benefit of the patient;
- TO CONDUCT themselves as exemplary citizens;
- TO MAINTAIN their offices and their practices in keeping with professional standards;
- TO PROMOTE and maintain cordial and unselfish relationships with members of their own profession and of other professions for the exchange of information to the advantage of mankind.
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