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.
-Conventional wisdom on confidentiality errs, according to Kipnis, because personal morality is conflated with

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Kipnis argues that conventional wisdom errs by conflating personal morality with professional ethics, suggesting that professional ethics should guide decisions on confidentiality rather than personal moral beliefs.

Kenneth Kipnis | a Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality