In the UK the General Medical Council's just discovered guidance on confidentiality restates the professional impost for doctors to regard personal information revealed to them as confidential.In the UK the General Medical Council's just discovered guidance on confidentiality restates the professional impost for doctors to regard personal information revealed to them as confidential. so information can be shared solely with the patient's explicit consent--the exceptions to this are narrowly defined. We believe the guidance does not adequately address the reality of confidentiality in fresh practice, particularly in relation to patients with dementia. It pretends to be naive or lacking in the craft required in complex clinical situations, perhaps because its legalistic, professional ethics have a philosophically limited view of confidentiality. A more sophisticated philosophical picture regards tribe as embedded in a shared, worldly connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts in which relationships and mutual engagement become crucial. Attending to the reality of cognitively impaired the public emphasizes this context and refer tos that confidentiality cannot be an overriding principle--it is best regarded as a token of trust. COPYRIGHT 2002 Oxford University Press |
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