Question 10 (part 2) · LEK · Medical certificates
You are a doctor who examines a patient in order to give disability-degree certificate. After examination you inform the retainer about the result. However according to the Medical Code of Ethics:
- A. you are obliged to inform the retainer about the time of examination.
- B. before starting the examination, you are obliged to inform the examined person about the reason for examination, and all information which do not justify the conclusions, should still be under the doctor-patient confidentiality policy.
- C. you are obliged to inform the retainer about the place of examination.
- D. justification should contain all the data concerning actual health state.
- E. Medical Code of Ethics does not regulate this problem.
Hint
Think about what the examined person must know before an examination done for a third party, and what remains secret afterwards.
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