
Doctors Shouldn't
Sneak On Their Patients
Vernon Coleman
The news that GPs are to be forced to tell the police if they
prescribe contraception for young teenage girls convinces me that the
jackbooted, door-rapping Gestapo are now not far away.
Confidentiality
has always been the bedrock upon which the trust between patients and doctors is
founded. You cannot be confidential with some patients and not with others. You
cannot be a little bit confidential any more than you can be a little bit
pregnant or a little bit fascist. Any doctor who tells the police anything about
a patient's treatment is guilty of gross professional misconduct and should be
struck off the medical register immediately. As a registered medical
practitioner and registered GP I took an oath never to divulge anything about
any patient to anyone. Social workers can do what they like. If doctors don't
fight this latest abuse they will have no right to call themselves
professionals.
Feb 8 2006 Copyright Vernon Coleman 2006
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