Indiscretion and other threats to confidentiality
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2010
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South African Journal of Bioethics and Law
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University of Cape Town
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Confidentiality is a central principle of medical ethics. The most common breaches of this principle are not the rare cases in which the principle is overridden by other considerations. Instead, confidentiality is most often breached when it clearly should be respected. In this paper I outline these threats to confidentiality, the most frequent and disturbing of which is indiscretion in its many forms.
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Benatar, D. (2010). Indiscretion and other threats to confidentiality. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 3(2), 59-62.