Confidentiality in medical practice.
Confidentiality in medical practice.
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医疗实践中的保密。
DOI:
10.1146/annurev.me.28.020177.000355
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
10.5
通讯作者:
M. Grossman
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作者:
M. Grossman
The Greeks started it! Many medical concepts of the fourth century BC and after were attributed to Hippocrates. Some were products of his followers, with credit given to the Hippocratic school. The Hippocratic oath was essentially a code of ethics credited to the Pythagoreans. They promulgated a strict code of social and moral ethics in reaction to the less concerned standards of their society and of other medical groups (1). The more disciplined attitude, inferring that less rigid practices were current, suggests that during the fourth century BC physicians were not above gossiping and revealing their knowledge about patients to recipients whose concerns were not for the patient. The Hippocratic oath also adjured the physicians against giving poisonous drugs to those requesting s.uch drugs. While Edelstein deduces that the intent was to forestall suicide (I), the language also suggests that the recipients of the poison might intend to administer it to someone else. The concept of "poison pen" material is not too farfetched in application to confidentiality. In the closing quarter of the twentieth century AD. concern about physicians gossiping and releasing medical information to others is still with us. Currently, medical care involves many adjunctive professionals in supplying health services. They need access to this medical information. Social attitudes have changed mostly superficially. Two major factors have not changed. Firstly, personal informa tion is still necessary for determining health care in treatment and prevention of illness and trauma, and for research to improve the whole process. Secondly, some of the personal data can be poisonous to the patient, depending on who uses it and how it is used.