Medicolegal file: Confidentiality. Disclosure to a patient's family

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 49, Issue MAR., 2003, Pages 300-301

  Tremayne Lloyd, Tracey ^a  

^a Tremayne Lloyd Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIVACY; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; CANADA; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT;

CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAMILY; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0037345379     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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1. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Doctor's notes: Physician liability for reporting patients' crimes. Members' Dialogue 1993;(Nov):11.
2. McInerney v McDonald (1992), 2 S.C.R. 138 at 148 (Supreme Court of Ontario).
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5. Regulated Health Professions Act, S.O. 1991, c. 18, S. 51(1)(c); O. Reg 856/93, s 1.(1)(10) promulgated under the Medicine Act, S.O. 1991, c. 30.
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