Patient’s and physician’s right to privacy – physician’s view
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Abstract: The paper deals with often insufficient discrimination of some basic terms: ethics, morale, law, of which there was recently quite a hot debate. Physician’s problems when facing a dilemma when and to what extent to follow legal regulations and when his ethical principles are described. A short history of the codes of medical ethics is given as well as the meaning they have in the physician’s professional conduct. The author also discusses some main legal and ethical inconsistencies regarding confidentiality of medical data.
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