Lack of discretion by physicians and otherhealth care personnel who discuss patient
information in what they think is an anonymous environment frequently leads to …

The principal product produced by the clinical laboratory is information. This is true whether
or not an automated system is used to organize and retrieve this information. It follows that …

As authors of case reports know, CMAJ requires written consent from pa-tients whose
medical history is described in our pages. In a recent issue we goofed and published not …

Transactions between physician and patient, as written in the patient's record or stored in the
physician's mind, have traditionally enjoyed the utmost privacy. Indeed theOath of …

Adefendant in a medical malpractice case fails to produce key Pap smears. Another litigant
is unable to provide paperwork to verify a specimen's chain of custody. Records matter …

Disclosure of information gained by a doctor during examination and interrogation of the
patient or after laboratory tests is a tricky matter. Giving information to a patient is not …

I read with interest this Editor's Page (Can Med Assoc J 1992; 147: 1299), by Dr. Bruce P.
Squires. Although I recognize the confidentiality issues identified I believe that the approach …

2. Prevention Informed consent must be strictly followed. The pre-and post-counseling
should be set and this activity can significantly reduce the problem. Setting of good secret …

Few doctors now take any form of Hippocratic oath when theyqualify, they just learn
medicine and are grateful to pass their final exams. However, whether or not they have …

THE conflict between the doctor's duty to his patient to hold inviolate all that he is told within
the doctor–patient relation and his duty to society, which may indeed under special …