PROFESSIONAL SECRECY.
DOCTORS' RIGHT OF SILENCE. LONDON, July 23. The annual conference of the British Medical Association has opened at Glaegow, 2000 delegates representing 24,000 British, Dominion, and foreign members are attending. The question of outstanding interest, Should doctors tell? which was adjourned in 1921, was discussed to-day. Cases were cited, in which doctors had been compelled to divulge in the Law Courts facts with which they had become acquainted professionally, and it was maintained that this was a breach of professional secrecy. It was pointed out that priests could not be forced to tell secrete of the confessional, but would go to prison first. A resolution waa passed promising support to members who refused to disclose information obtained professionally, and demanding special consideration for medical witnesses.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) ■ ;J^Jil*
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 173, 24 July 1922, Page 5
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