title: Confidentiality--at any price?
abstract: Confidentiality is a well respected and integral part of medical and dental practice and not without good reason. So fundamental is it to medicine in all its aspects, and so entrenched in the attitudes of those of us in the health care field, that it is never questioned. All patients are individuals in their own right and treated as such in strict confidence.
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Osborn
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D003815:Dentists; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / Q000517:prevention & control*