Physician Duties Regarding Information
Learn about a physician’s duties to maintain confidential information and to obtain a patient’s informed consent.
Transcript
The existence of a physician-patient relationship places legal duties on the physician. A physician’s duties to provide a certain level of medical care and not to abandon a patient are covered in a separate lesson. In this lesson, we’ll look at the physician’s initial duties to keep a patient’s treatment information private and to get informed consent.
I. Physician’s Duty to Keep Patient Information Private
From the instant a physician-patient relationship is created, the physician owes the...
