Question 6 (part 2) · LEK · Medical confidentiality
You are summoned by prosecutor’s office as a witness. After identifying, the prosecutor starts to question you about the course of treatment of one of your patients. What should be done?
- A. you provide the information about treatment.
- B. you ask for interrogation at later date due to not remembering the required information.
- C. you commit to providing written information.
- D. you refer the interrogator to the patient’s family.
- E. you ask for a document that relieves you from doctor-patient confidentiality.
Hint
A physician questioned as a witness remains bound by professional secrecy — consider who can lift it in criminal proceedings.
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