The Whatever--Random Medical School Stuff

mom2collegekids
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:00:45 +0000

This is in case a patient ever confesses a crime to her. Since any utterance that occurs within the doctor-patient relationship is confidential, she is ethically required to keep silent. E

I don’t believe that this is true IF the crime is ongoing…such as the patient has kidnapped a person and you have been told where that person is being kept. Or if the patient admits to abusing a child and it’s on-going.

Even a person’s defense atty is NOT allowed to keep an ongoing crime silent nor would he be allowed to withhold info as to where a kidnapped person is being held.