title: The rights of the employee as patient.
abstract: In summary, the rights of the employee as patient are essentially the same as they would be in any health care practitioner-patient relationship, whenever diagnosis and treatment are contemplated. When they are not involved and job fitness alone is at issue, the employee or potential employee has the right to expect that the practitioner will exercise reasonable skill and care in making the medical decision of employability. He probably also has the right to expect that any personal medical information generated in the course of making the decision remain confidential, unless it bears directly on his ability to do the job.
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D028701:Patient Rights; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D014481:United States