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Medical confidentiality and disclosing genetic information to family members
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Abstract
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| Genetic testing not only reveals information about the person being tested. It can also reveal information about relatives. A patient’s genetic diagnosis can be of great importance to genetically at-risk relatives. Sometimes a patient doesn’t share this information with his or her family. In that case, can a physician communicate the information to family members? The shared nature of genetic information creates a conflict between established principles of health law and ethics, that is the right to autonomy and privacy of the patient, the right to information of the relatives, the duty of confidentiality and the duty to warn. Overall, there seems to be a consensus that a breach of confidentiality could be justified either based on the patient’s consent or, in exceptional circumstances, based on a physician’s duty to warn when this can prevent serious harm to relatives. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Medicine and law. - Berlin
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Publication
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Berlin
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2020
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ISSN
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0723-1393
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Volume/pages
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39
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(2020)
, p. 419-445
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ISI
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000604402700003
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