Question 48 · LDEK · Medical confidentiality
The doctor violates the duty to maintain medical confidentiality when he/she discloses information related to the patient and obtained during a medical check-up to:
- A. state poviat (county) sanitary inspector when that information concerns the diagnosis of an infectious disease.
- B. family of a patient with the consent of the patient.
- C. patient in the presence of other patients and their visitors who are in a multi-person sickroom during a medical round.
- D. if keeping confidentiality may pose hazard to health of other persons.
- E. when the doctor acts as a witness in a penal case and has been exempted from the obligation to maintain medical confidentiality by court.
Hint
Most options are lawful exceptions to secrecy; find the situation in which information reaches people with no right to hear it.
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