“Confidentiality is a fundamental principle of medical law and medical ethics, but it is not absolute. It is well established that doctors may disclose confidential information in certain limited circumstances. Perhaps the best-recognised justification is where disclosure serves the public interest, and specifically, where the disclosure is made to prevent harm to others. Well-established as the law on this point is, it is rarely litigated. As such, a new decision on public interest disclosure from any common law jurisdiction is of significance across the common law world, and perhaps beyond …”
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Andrea Mulligan, Patient Confidentiality and Disclosure of HIV Status: Disentangling the Entitlement to Disclose from the Duty to Warn, Medical Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab005. Published: 20 October 2021.
First posted 2021-10-25 17:00:25
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