Abstract
Confidentiality is a fundamental tenant of the physician-patient relationship. It is faced daily in the practice of medicine and has both a legal and moral basis. The right to privacy and the notion of privileged communication provide a legal basis while incorporation of it almost all medical oaths and codes of ethics provides a moral basis. This essay delineates much of what has been said historically about confidentiality by many prominent people, professional organizations, and faith traditions. While without unanimity, most of them take a very strong, almost absolute, position on upholding confidentiality in the physician-patient relationship.
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