Publishing information about patients
- 11 November 1995
- Vol. 311 (7015) , 1240-1241
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7015.1240
Abstract
Despite the fact that the General Medical Council did not find the doctors guilty of serious professional misconduct, this case illustrates radical changes in expectations on guarding patient confidentiality in published reports; and these changing expectations reflect broader changes in the relationship between doctors and patients. Medical journals and textbooks have …Keywords
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