Patient Confidentiality and Ethical Behaviour as a Professional Commitment in Dentistry: A Case Study in a Genetic Disorder

Authors

  • Greg Anderson Prosthodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1751-6471
  • Leyla Sadighpour Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Prosthodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4972-9842

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7202/1073790ar

Keywords:

bioethics, Professionalism, Confidentiality, Genetic disorder, Amelogenesis imperfecta

Language(s):

English

Abstract

A professional commitment to patient confidentiality may sometimes contradict other principles of bioethics. Decision-making for doctors and their team can be challenging amidst such conflicting principles, and despite the practitioner’s best intentions, withholding information can result in potential consequences such as harm to others.

Open issue, (c) Han Han Li

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Published

2020-11-16

How to Cite

[1]
Anderson G, Sadighpour L. Patient Confidentiality and Ethical Behaviour as a Professional Commitment in Dentistry: A Case Study in a Genetic Disorder. Can. J. Bioeth 2020;3:134-6. https://doi.org/10.7202/1073790ar.

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2020): Open Issue

Section

Case studies

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Copyright (c) 2020 Greg Anderson, Leyla Sadighpour

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