confidentiality
Confidentiality in the doctor-patient relationship is a core principle, and highly valued by the patient. It helps build trust, but can also cause problems. Are there situations in which it's acceptable to breach confidentiality?
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Online GMC Consultation February 2008 - Confidentiality: protecting and providing information - 26/2/2008
Please see the GMC website: www.gmc-uk.org for more information on the consultation they are running. 1. Is maintaining confidentiality an important professional value for the medical profession, or is it simply a contractual and legal obligation? It is a vitally important professional value without which patients will never trust us with enough...Mother loses 'right to know' case
23/1/2006
A mother has lost her court battle for a parent's 'right to know' if girls are being advised on abortion...
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Records, Confidentiality and Computers (triple helix - spring 2005)
Over the next few years there will be a revolution in the way personal information about patients is managed in the NHS. We are told that: '…every patient's medical and care records will be held electronically and will eventually be available securely online. The information will be safely and...
Confidentiality - Christian Virtue or Christian Necessity? (nucleus - summer 1994)
The Hippocratic Oath states 'whatever I see or hear, professionally or privately, which ought not to be divulged, I will keep secret and tell no one'.[1] - The Oath is most unlikely to have originated in the Hippocratic school. Probably it came from Pythagoreans[2] who, like Christians today, were...