SHOULD DOCTORS TELL?
HOUSE OF COMMONS BILL LONDON, Feb. 5. Members of the House of Commons showed no sympathy for the plea that doctors should not tell, and negatived without a division a Bill permitting doctors to refrain from disclosing in courts of law confidential information from their oatients. Simultaneously, the British Medical Journal expresses the opinion that without the patient’s consent no doctor should voluntarily disclose information from a patient. The answer should be “ No,” even if it means gaol for contempt
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23109, 8 February 1937, Page 9
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