GP/ Patient confidentiality query.
Discussion
Has a General Practitioner a duty of total confidentiality to his patients or are some things OK to report?
I'd hazard a guess that murder confessions ( and similar ilk) would be OK, having a transmittable disease that the patient refused to have treated would also be OK.
Would pain killer/drug dependancy or alcohol abuse need to be reported?...and if so, to whom? Would it depend on what position the person had in society ie nurse, school teacher, publican etc?
I'd hazard a guess that murder confessions ( and similar ilk) would be OK, having a transmittable disease that the patient refused to have treated would also be OK.
Would pain killer/drug dependancy or alcohol abuse need to be reported?...and if so, to whom? Would it depend on what position the person had in society ie nurse, school teacher, publican etc?
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