10.5281/zenodo.1207229
Jaroszyński, Janusz
Janusz
Jaroszyński
Husarz, Renata
Renata
Husarz
Jurek, Anna
Anna
Jurek
Mela, Aneta
Aneta
Mela
Doctor-Patient Confidentiality - Right And Duty Of A Doctor In Law Regulations
Zenodo
2018
patient, physician, medical law, physician's professional secrecy
2018-03-25
Journal article
https://zenodo.org/record/1207230
10.5281/zenodo.1207230
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
Open Access
<p><strong>Jaroszyński Janusz, Husarz Renata, Jurek Anna, Mela Aneta. </strong><strong>Doctor-patient confidentiality - right and duty of a doctor in law regulations. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(3):444-452. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1207230">http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1207230</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Received: 05.02.2018. Revised: 10.02.2018. Accepted: 25.03.2018.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Doctor-patient confidentiality - right and duty of a doctor in law regulations</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Janusz Jaroszyński¹, Renata Husarz¹, Anna Jurek¹, Aneta Mela²</strong></p>
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<p>¹ Chair and Department of Public Health, Medical University of Lublin</p>
<p>² Chair and Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Warsaw</p>
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<p><strong>Summary:</strong></p>
<p>Physician’s professional secrecy is one of the most important duties of a doctor and should be provided with confidentiality regarding his or her health. Generally speaking, there is no legal definition of "physician’s professional secrecy" in Poland, although this concept already appears in the oath of Hippocrates: <em>‘</em><em>I will keep secret anything I see or hear professionally, which ought not to be told’</em>. The issue of medical confidentiality (physician’s professional secrecy) has been regulated in several legal acts such as: The Patient Rights and Patients Ombudsman Act, The Constitution of the Republic of Poland, The Medical Profession Act, The Civil Code Act, The Criminal Code Act and Code of Medical Ethics which is not considered as a legal act. The patient has the right to require confidentiality of the information concerning him and the obligation to keep medical confidentiality will apply to every representative of the medical profession, who obtained certain information by various professional activities.</p>
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<p><strong>Key words:</strong> patient, physician, medical law, physician’s professional secrecy</p>