Question 91 · LEK · Informing about health status
What does the term “therapeutic privilege” mean?
- A. patient’s right to get access to the most recent and advanced medical procedures.
- B. doctor’s right to decide on the order of the patients to deficient medical services.
- C. doctor’s right that allows them, in exceptional cases and for the patient’s own good, to restrain themselves from giving the patient full information about his/her condition and unfavorable prognosis.
- D. patient’s right to get access to their medical records.
- E. doctor’s right that allows them, in exceptional cases and for the patient’s own good, to provide a competent patient with a medical service against his/her will.
Hint
The term describes an exceptional power of the doctor concerning the flow of information, used for the patient's own benefit.
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