Professional Secrecy and the Journalist

Professional secrecy: a vincible right.

Professional secrecy as a stressor among norwegian physicians

The aim of the present study is to assess how the necessary practice of professional secrecy may be a stressor for doctors, and to what extent MM (mortality and morbidity)-meetings and having a doctor as a spouse or partner, may serve as outlets for emotional charge. A postal survey was sent to a stratified sample of 780 doctors working in and outside hospitals in a health region in Norway (1.1...

Henry Mayhew: journalist, social investigator, and foreshadower of qualitative research.

As a journalist, Henry Mayhew recorded daily life in London in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His approach remains of interest to historians and social scientists today in that it foreshadowed qualitative research. The article highlights methodological aspects of Mayhew's investigations and analyzes two of his reports, one on a cholera outbreak and the other on a female street vendo...

Secrecy logic: S -secrecy structures

Let S = 〈L, S〉 be a deductive system. An S -secrecy logic is a quadruple K = 〈FmL(V ),K,B, S〉 , where FmL(V ) is the algebra of L-formulas, K,B are S -theories, with B ⊆ K and S ⊆ K such that S ∩ B = ∅ . K corresponds to information deducible from a knowledge base, B to information deducible from the publicly accessible (or browsable) part of the knowledge base and S is a secret set, a set of s...

An investigative journalist looks at medical ethics.

Campbell criticizes Britain's medical and research community and the General Medical Council (GMC) for their lack of initiative in investigating the activities of Drs. James Sharp and Jabar Sultan. Sharp and Sultan conducted a series of highly-publicized but unethical and potentially harmful experiments with private patients that was eventually brought to public attention by Campbell's report ...