To tell or not to tell ? Physiotherapy students ’ responses to breaking patient confidentiality

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Telling the truth to patients is a key issue in medical ethics. Today, most physicians hold that truth-telling to patients is crucial, and that lying to patients or withholding information from them is not acceptable. It seems, however, that absolute and unconditional truth-telling is not always possible, and it may not be feasible to tell some patients certain truths under some circumstances. ...

I-14: The Impact of Disclosure Decisions on Donor Gamete Participants: Donors, Intended Parents and Offspring

To discuss the psychological impact of disclosure decisions on donor gamete participants including gamete donors, intended parents, and the children conceived through these third party reproductive techniques. In the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase worldwide in the number of children born as a result of gamete donation. The growing demand for these programs has resulted in a tre...

To tell or not to tell: the scope of physician-patient confidentiality when relatives are at risk of genetic disease.

Listening to Patients’ Voices: What Can We Learn?

I t is a wonderful honour to have been selected as the Canadian Physiotherapy Association’s Enid Graham Memorial Lecturer for 2006. I would like to thank Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons for spearheading and coordinating this nomination, as well as those of you who wrote letters on my behalf. Because I still feel like a relatively ‘‘new’’ Canadian, having emigrated here in 1990 and become a citizen in ...

To Tell, or Not to Tell; Confidentiality in an Iranian HIV Positive Patient: A Viewpoint

Confidentiality is a basic concept in medical ethics and protecting confidentiality is considered as physicians' duty. In some occasions, this protection is in conflict with the right of the patient's sexual partner, who should be informed about the possibility of being infected. The sexual partner being pregnant, the situation is going to be more complicated. In this paper, we present a case d...