Code of Medical Ethics and Deontology

Article 30.38 _38 CODE OF MEDICAL DEONTOLOGY - In the practice of team medicine, each doctor has the duty and responsibility to preserve the confidentiality of all the patient's personal data. Article 30.4 A doctor should only communicate a patient's confidential information to another doctor when necessary for the latter's benefit. Article 31.1 Professional secrecy is the rule and should be preserved to the extent possible. A doctor may reveal the secret, with reasonable limits, in the following cases: 1. Birth and death certificates. 2. Injury reports. 3. When acting as an expert, inspector, forensic doctor, instructor, or similar. 4. When required to do so as a witness. 5. In cases of abuse. 6. Notifiable diseases. 7. In cases of suspected human and organ trafficking. 8. When called by the Local Medical Association to testify in disciplinary matters. 9. When with his/her silence he/she seriously harms the patient or other people or produces a collective danger. 10. When the patient to whom the information refers requests or authorizes its disclosure.

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