title: Should confidentiality in medicine be absolute?
authors.affiliation: Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balint
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics*; D018563:Disease Notification; D017007:Duty to Warn / Q000941:ethics*; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008297:Male; D028681:Moral Obligations; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D011634:Public Health / Q000941:ethics*; D018454:Spouses; D014481:United States