[Medical] - Ethical & legal dilemmas faced by medical doctors... what would YOU do?

[UltimaOnline]

Just last month, a legal case was heard in the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The case concerns a man who was diagnosed with an inheritable disease (Huntington's disease).

He told his doctors not to reveal this to his daughter, who was then pregnant, fearing that she would terminate her pregnancy.

Subsequently, when the disease was manifested in the daughter, she sued the man's doctors on the basis that, if she had known, she would not have continued with her pregnancy.

This legal case centres on whether doctors should have a legal duty to warn patients' relatives about disease risks from an inherited condition - essentially the balancing act between a duty to protect patient confidentiality versus a duty to warn, and thus prevent harm to relatives.

What would YOU do if you were this particular medical doctor???

https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/...to-warn-a-patients-relatives-of-genetic-risks

 

[Hypocrite-The]

If it affects another person. The patient has no right to confidentiality. And the patient is a total asshole for breeding and affecting his children. Scums like that should not b allowed to breed and should be Soylent Green to not allow such illness from spreading and diluting the gene pool.. Hitler was right.

 

[red amoeba]

There is always a probability that the daughter did not inherit the disease.
It’s not required by law to reveal.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Guess the race of the perp?

 

[tanwahtiu]

Do orso die, dont do orso die....

Better not study medical wasted 6 years for nothing... get a fake degree like Brahmin nehs can run road easily disappeared into India andxthen come back with new name and expert in IT...

 

[tanwahtiu]

Dont assume... assume is made up of 3 words dont made an 'ass' of 'u' and 'me'....

There is always a probability that the daughter did not inherit the disease.
It’s not required by law to reveal.