Question 67 · LEK · Medical confidentiality
According to the Act on the profession of the doctor and dentist, medical secrecy after the patient’s death:
- A. may be divulged to any person because the patient’s death frees the doctor from having to obey it.
- B. is absolutely protected and none entity may free the doctor from obeying it.
- C. may be divulged with the consent of the locally appropriate regional medical council.
- D. may be divulged if after the patient’s death a person close to the patient within the meaning of the Act on Patients’ Rights and the Ombudsman for Patients’ Rights expresses their consent.
- E. may be divulged if the doctor decides that it does not harm the good of the patient and confirms that decision in the consultation with another doctor.
Hint
Medical secrecy survives the patient's death, but the Act names one category of persons whose consent allows disclosure.
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