Ethicality and confidentiality: Is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics?
This paper discusses confidentiality as a routine issue of concern to British general practitioners participating in a qualitative study as well as in contemporaneous practice literature. While keen to reflect on routine issues, such as confidentiality, participants who professed a lack of expertise...
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| description | This paper discusses confidentiality as a routine issue of concern to British general practitioners participating in a qualitative study as well as in contemporaneous practice literature. While keen to reflect on routine issues, such as confidentiality, participants who professed a lack of expertise in medical ethics also perceived reluctance or inability to access educational resources or ethics support. Such lack of ability might include a perception of non-entitlement to access advice and support, a fear of criticism, or simply that resources fail to be advertised. Participants' insights are set alongside a concurrent debate in the professional literature over whether problems with maintaining confidentiality should be rigorously discussed in a public forum. A preliminary suggestion is that confidentiality may be emblematic of the negotiation between academic and professional ethics. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:602d8961-9a33-419d-b710-ed30a67bbafb2022-03-26T17:51:45ZEthicality and confidentiality: Is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:602d8961-9a33-419d-b710-ed30a67bbafbEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Papanikitas, AThis paper discusses confidentiality as a routine issue of concern to British general practitioners participating in a qualitative study as well as in contemporaneous practice literature. While keen to reflect on routine issues, such as confidentiality, participants who professed a lack of expertise in medical ethics also perceived reluctance or inability to access educational resources or ethics support. Such lack of ability might include a perception of non-entitlement to access advice and support, a fear of criticism, or simply that resources fail to be advertised. Participants' insights are set alongside a concurrent debate in the professional literature over whether problems with maintaining confidentiality should be rigorously discussed in a public forum. A preliminary suggestion is that confidentiality may be emblematic of the negotiation between academic and professional ethics. |
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| title | Ethicality and confidentiality: Is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics? |
| title_full | Ethicality and confidentiality: Is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics? |
| title_fullStr | Ethicality and confidentiality: Is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethicality and confidentiality: Is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics? |
| title_short | Ethicality and confidentiality: Is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics? |
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