Question 36 · LEK · Informing about health status
Providing patients with information about their health conditions:
- A. is the doctor’s duty whether or not patients ask for it.
- B. is the doctor’s duty only if the doctor wants to obtain patients’ consent for medical services.
- C. is the doctor’s duty only with regard to adult patients.
- D. is the doctor’s duty only if patients ask for it.
- E. does not concern children, to whom no information is provided by the doctor.
Hint
Information is a patient right; consider whether it depends on the patient asking for it.
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