Question 82 · LDEK · Medical confidentiality
Dentists violate the law if they reveal information concerning their patients, obtained in the course of dental treatment, to the patients’ close people in the following circumstances:
- A. adult patient informed about the effects, even adverse, of revealing the information expressed their consent to such an action.
- B. adult patient is capable of understanding the importance of the information and the dentist without asking the patient for their consent passes the information to their close person.
- C. keeping the information secret could put the patients’ or other people’s lives or health in danger.
- D. after the patient’s death the consent to reveal the information was given by one of the close-to-the-patient people while other close people and the patient himself during his lifetime did not object.
- E. after the patient’s death the consent to reveal the information was given by the only existing close person and the patient during his lifetime did not object.
Hint
Recall the statutory exceptions to medical confidentiality in the Act on the Professions of Physician and Dentist, including those after death.
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