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Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege (Hardcover)
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Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege (Hardcover)
Series: Social Ethics and Policy
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This book examines the ethical obligations binding a doctor to her
patient's confidences and asks "Should those ethical obligations be
recognized in the courtroom?". Increasingly, English law has shown
a responsiveness to the need to accord respect to patient
confidentiality. In practice this has involved the prohibition of
unauthorized disclosure of medical records in national newspapers
and the provision of special protection for data stored on
computer. In one area, however, the law has been unwilling to
protect patient confidences - the courtroom. A patient cannot stop
her doctor from testifying even though the doctor has promised not
to divulge medical information under any circumstances. Jean V.
McHale examines cases to see whether the denial in law of the
doctor-patient privilege is consistent with the protection of other
confidential relationships. She discusses the nature of medical
information and confidentiality and she considers the practical
issues and questions which are raised by confidentiality. This book
challenges orthodox ideas of medical confidentiality and questions
the overriding right of the law.
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