PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Health Professional, Consequentialism
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Confidentiality -concerns patients telling info to health professional who promise, implicitly or explicitly, not to disclose that info to others. An obligation or pledge of hcp and others to keep secret the personal health info of patients unless they consent to disclosure. Hippocratic oath has the physician swear that whatever i see or hear, professionally or privately, which ought not to be divulged, i will keep secret and tell no one . Arguments for confidentiality can take both consequentialist and nonconsequentialist forms. Disclosure of medical info could expose patients to discrimination from insurance companies and employers, disrupt their personal relationships and subject them to shame or public ridicule. Nonconsequentialist -can argue from the principle of autonomy the idea that people should be allowed to exercise their capacity for self-determination o. Right to privacy -the authority of persons to control who may possess and use info about themselves.
