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  2. Physician–patient privilege - Wikipedia

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    Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and their doctor from being used against the patient in court. It is a part of the rules of evidence in many common law jurisdictions. Almost every jurisdiction that recognizes physician–patient privilege not to ...

  3. Medical privacy - Wikipedia

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    Medical privacy, or health privacy, is the practice of maintaining the security and confidentiality of patient records. It involves both the conversational discretion of health care providers and the security of medical records.

  4. Patients' rights - Wikipedia

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    Right to confidentiality, human dignity and privacy: Doctors should observe strict confidentiality of a patient's condition, with the only exception of potential threats to public health. In case of a physical inspection by a male doctor on a female patient, the latter has the right to have a female person present throughout the procedure.

  5. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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    The types of violations vary, with many involving improper training or record keeping, such as not preparing written care plans for patients. Others involve threats to patient life or safety. In May 2013, inspectors for Florida’s health department concluded that a nurse at Suncoast Hospice, in Clearwater, gave a patient too much insulin ...

  6. Confidentiality - Wikipedia

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    Confidentiality is commonly applied to conversations between doctors and patients. Legal protections prevent physicians from revealing certain discussions with patients, even under oath in court. [6] This physician-patient privilege only applies to secrets shared between physician and patient during the course of providing medical care. [6] [7]

  7. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California - Wikipedia

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    Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient.

  8. Hackers stole personal data of over 800k Sutter Health ...

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    Hundreds of thousands of Sutter Health patients are learning that they had personal information stolen as part of the same massive data breach last May that hit roughly 1.2 million CalPERS and ...

  9. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    Eugene Ellsworth Landy was an American psychologist and psychotherapist best known for his unconventional 24-hour therapy as well as ethical violations concerning his treatment of Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson in the 1980s. In 2015, Landy's relationship with Wilson was dramatized in the biographical film Love & Mercy.