Ethics roundtable debate: is a physician-patient confidentiality relationship subservient to a greater good?
Is a health care provider's most proximal obligation to individuals or society as a whole? Our International panel of critical care providers grapple over the issue of whether patient-physician confidentiality exists as an open ended ideal it should be subservient to a greater good.
Cotton
Chris
C
South Australian Ambulance Service, Adelaide, Australia.
Crippen
David W
DW
Kapadia
Farhad
F
Morgan
Arthur
A
Murray
Holt N
HN
Ross
Gil
G
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D010819:Physician's Role / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D013019:South Africa