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Privacy and Health Care (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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Privacy and Health Care (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Series: Biomedical Ethics Reviews
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Western societies generally recognize both a legal and a moral
right to privacy. However, at the present time there is no settled
opin ion in the United States regarding how these rights should
relate to medical information. On the one hand, virtually everyone
agrees that one' s medical records should not be open to just any
interested person' s inspection. On the other hand, most also agree
that some sacrifices in medical privacy are necessary for
scientific advancement, public health protection, and other social
goals. However, what limits should be set upon those sacrifices,
and how those limits should be determined, have long been issues of
debate. In recent years this debate has intensified. There are a
variety ofreasons for this; to mention only three: (1) Over the
years the US health care delivery system has become increasingly
complex, and with this complexity there has come a need for more
and more people to have access to patients' medical records. With
each transference of information, breaches in confidentiality
become more likely. (2) Medical costs have risen at an alarming
rate. This makes health insurance a virtual necessity for adequate
medical care, and people worry that they will be denied employment
and/or medical cov erage if certain sorts of medical information
are not kept strictly confi dential. (3) Finally, many medical
records are now kept in computer files, and the impossibility of
guaranteeing confidentiality for files of this sort is a constant
worry."
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