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.
-When core professional values appear to conflict, what is required is ___________ to help in decision-making.

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A priority rule helps in decision-making when core professional values appear to conflict by establishing which value should take precedence.

Kenneth Kipnis | a Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality