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  1. Medical confidentiality and the competent patient.Gerard Niveau, Sandra Burkhardt & Sarah Chiesa - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (11):686-689.
    Confidentiality is both a fundamental principle of medical ethics and a legal obligation.In exceptional situations not covered by legal provisions, doctors may want to waive confidentiality against the wishes of the patient. Swiss law calls for an authority to rule on such cases. In the Canton of Geneva this authority is the Commission for Professional Confidentiality. This paper concerns 41 cases managed by this commission. The study shows that the majority of these requests to the Commission concern the reporting of (...)
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  • Bioethics in a clinic for women with psychosis.M. V. Seeman & B. Seeman - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (9):518-522.
    Clinical ethics takes on a special cast in a rehabilitation clinic for psychosis where many patients come from severely disadvantaged backgrounds and many suffer from fluctuating decisional capacity. This paper illustrates several ethical issues—truth telling and partiality, prescribing concealed medication, questionable billing practices, industry collaboration, limits of confidentiality, grounds for abandonment and the primacy of autonomy—in the hope that discussing such matters will lead to a clearer framework for work with this population.
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