Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The paper deals with often insufficient discrimination of some basic terms: ethics, morale, law, of which there was recently quite a hot debate. Physician’s problems when facing a dilemma when and to what extent to follow legal regulations and when his...

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Main Author: Marga Kocmur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Slovenian Medical Association 2006-10-01
Series:Zdravniški Vestnik
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Online Access:http://vestnik.szd.si/index.php/ZdravVest/article/view/2038
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description <p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The paper deals with often insufficient discrimination of some basic terms: ethics, morale, law, of which there was recently quite a hot debate. Physician’s problems when facing a dilemma when and to what extent to follow legal regulations and when his ethical principles are described. A short history of the codes of medical ethics is given as well as the meaning they have in the physician’s professional conduct. The author also discusses some main legal and ethical inconsistencies regarding confidentiality of medical data.</p>
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spellingShingle Marga Kocmur
Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view
Zdravniški Vestnik
confidentality
medical ethics
law
title Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view
title_full Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view
title_fullStr Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view
title_full_unstemmed Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view
title_short Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view
title_sort patient s and physician s right to privacy physician s view
topic confidentality
medical ethics
law
url http://vestnik.szd.si/index.php/ZdravVest/article/view/2038
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