Question 31 · LDEK · Access to records
The dentist ordered to do diagnostic tests in a patient with full legal capacity. When the dentist obtained the results, the patient’s spouse showed up asking for them on the grounds that the patient was at work and could not do it in person. What should the dentist do?
- A. he is allowed to give the results only if the patient authorized him in pen to do so.
- B. he is allowed to give the results because the spouse is the patient’s close person.
- C. he is allowed to give the results to neither the patient nor the spouse because the results constitute hospital property.
- D. he is allowed to give the results provided that he commits the spouse to keeping them secret from unauthorized parties.
- E. he is allowed to give the results if he assumes that such a move is in the interest of the patient.
Hint
Being a spouse does not by itself entitle someone to a competent adult patient's records — what does?
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