Patient confidentiality
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- Protecting patient confidentiality is more difficult and more important than ever before.
- Everyone should seek to ensure that protection of patient confidentiality is built into all health care.
- Its significance in regard to doctor-patient confidentiality is heightened by its having occurred in the therapist-client relationship , traditionally more rigidly focused on confidentiality than the physician -patient relationship.
- If you think the assault on patient confidentiality is a purely hypothetical one, consider a suit brought by a coalition of groups helping AIDS patients in Boston.
- The patient and the health care worker should discuss this possibility and be prepared to address this issue in the event that patient confidentiality is not maintained.
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