SHOULD DOCTORS TELL?
— Press Aasn.-
Commons Say Yes; B.M.J. Urges No ACT NOT PASSED
(By Telegraph
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(Keceived 6, 2.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 5. Members of the House of Commons ^howed no sympathy for the plea that doctors should not tell and negatived without division a Bill permitting doctors to refrain from disclosing in courts of law confidential information from patients. Simultaneously the British Medica! Journal expresses the ^opinion that without a patient's consent, no doetor should voluntarily disclose information from a patient. The answer should be No, even if it means gaol for contempt of Court. u
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 19, 6 February 1937, Page 5
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