title: [The limits of the physician's secrecy duty in risk situations. Special reference to genetics].
abstract: This work deals with those conflict situations that arise between the duty of secrecy by health professionals and the interest in safekeeping the life and physical integrity of third parties when dealing with behaviours by the patient, whether intentional or not, that could harm or place in danger those legal goods. The special situations of conflict that could arise in the ambit of genetic diagnosis are dealt as a special problem.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Sevilla, España.
authors.forename: Ma del Carmen
authors.initials: Mdel C
authors.lastname: Gómez Rivero
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017007:Duty to Warn / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005817:Genetic Counseling / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D030661:Genetic Privacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*