Question 81 · LEK · Medical confidentiality
One patient, two days before his death was visited by a High Representative of a foreign state, who gave him a decoration. The doctor was a witness to this event because it happened that he examined at this time another patient. According to the Code of Medical Ethics he should:
- A. inform the authorities out of concern for his own safety.
- B. inform the authorities out of concern for the safety of his own state.
- C. promptly provide the information for the spokesman of the Hospital.
- D. he can submit the information only after the patient’s death.
- E. he should keep this information in secrecy.
Hint
Medical secrecy covers everything the doctor learns in connection with his professional activity, not just diagnoses.
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