Kenneth Kipnis | a Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality

Kenneth Kipnis | A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality
Kipnis challenges the conventional wisdom that confidentiality may be breached to avert harm to a third party. Core professional values are mistakenly taken to conflict, such as trustworthiness and confidentiality, only when it is overlooked that physicians must also be concerned with the well-being of society. As such, building in the exceptions to confidentiality from the beginning, in a qualified confidentiality clause, will take care of these alleged conflicts.
-In deciding whether to resuscitate a patient, a physician should reflect on

A) individual attitudes.
B) religious beliefs.
C) personal values.
D) professional obligations.