Health Care Ethics 4
The physician requesting his patient's results be expunged continues to pressure you to
delete the results. Even though his patient is a member of the Board of Directors at your
health center, as the IT Services Manager, your reply should be which of the following?
a) I still don't feel comfortable about deleting a file because it might hurt someone close
to the hospital. I need to think about this a while, and get some input from others.
b) I can see that. An upstanding member of the community shouldn't be totally ruined if
we can make sure he gets treatment for the disease. I'll delete it.
c) I agree with you that patient confidentiality precludes reporting anything outside of
that relationship
d) I will go ahead and delete your patient's result from the records system because you
have asked me in confidence. - ✔️✔️a) I still don't feel comfortable about deleting a file
because it might hurt someone close to the hospital. I need to think about this a while,
and get some input from others.
When meeting with the Chief Nursing Officer, you ask him why reporting diseases like
syphilis is not protected by confidentiality. What might be his response? (Select all that
apply)
a) I think that the state's requirement for reporting is to keep track of the disease and try
to contain it.
b) Diseases like syphilis are protected by confidentiality so it is perfectly legal for you to
delete the patients's results.
c) The state wants to ensure that the patient's sexual partners are all informed of their
potential risk.
d) In this case, the state's desire to contain the problem and benefit the community
outweighs the individual's right to privacy. - ✔️✔️a) I think that the state's requirement
for reporting is to keep track of the disease and try to contain it.
c) The state wants to ensure that the patient's sexual partners are all informed of their
potential risk.
d) In this case, the state's desire to contain the problem and benefit the community
outweighs the individual's right to privacy.
You are the IT Services Manager at a Community Health Center and are asked by a
physician to expunge a specific patient's results from the records system, because of
the negative impact it would have on the patient's reputation. There are many issues to
consider, including: (Select all that apply)
a) The extent to which physician/patient privilege extends.