PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hippocratic Oath, Medical Privacy, Mark Siegler
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Privacy and confidentiality: right to privacy: the right to control whether to reveal something to someone. If you learn personal details in other ways, it might violate moral right to privacy, but not duty of confidentiality. History of confidentiality: hippocratic oath, percival, medical ethics. Subtler reasons: wanting life to run on as before, ie work life, keeping sex life and family life separate, not wanting to be a spectacle, not wanting people to think about them in certain ways. Basis of duty of confidentiality: beneficence: protecting patient"s interest in privacy, autonomy and promising: patient has revealed info and submitted to examination on implicit understanding that this info will be kept confidential. He suffers from paranoid thoughts, speech disorder, and involuntary muscle movements. The neurologist diagnoses hi(cid:373) as ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g wilso(cid:374)"s disease, a rare ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272) disorder: wilso(cid:374)"s disease i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)es (cid:271)uild-up of copper in vital organs. Untreated it can cause serious organ damage and is eventually fatal.
