“Doctor” - how proudly this word sounds. This person saves the lives of others, he helps everyone without exception, he sacrifices himself, for the sake of saving people.
In the modern world, saving a life or recovery is not considered a miracle, but is just a job. Today, medicine has been very widely developed, numerous diagnostic and rehabilitation centers, dispensaries have begun to appear. However, emergency medical care is becoming increasingly relevant. The thing is that sometimes a person needs to provide a minimum of medical care, just so that he remains alive, and the rest will be done by doctors of the hospital or intensive care unit.
If you delve a bit into history, it becomes clear that before all the help of the doctor was emergency, because there were no devices for diagnosis, and people still did not know many of the initial symptoms of the disease. And so it turned out that doctors saved their lives without having sufficient skills and tools.
It seems that with the development of technology and science, people in general should stop getting sick, but nature also does not stand still. Diseases only get harder and more dangerous.
The ambulance service was created to help people in emergency situations. The ambulance should quickly arrive at the patient and perform the necessary minimum of manipulations, and then deliver him to the nearest department of the hospital for further treatment. Also, this service can stop acute conditions at home (hypertensive crises, fainting, hyperthermic syndromes) without subsequent hospitalization of the patient. Thus, emergency medical care is one of the first stages of treatment.
Such emergency teams travel to the scene of an accident, robbery and assassination, as well as to the place of suicide. In all these cases, the ambulance doctor must be guided by the rule: medical confidentiality is not disclosed to anyone! This applies to all doctors who not only conduct practical activities, but are also on a well-deserved rest by age.
Hippocrates himself wrote: “Whatever with treatment - and also without treatment - I neither saw or heard about human life from what should never be disclosed, I will keep silent about this, considering such things a secret.” Everything that happens between the doctor and the patient should not be known to a third party.
Medical confidentiality extends to the very fact of a person seeking help at a healthcare institution, as well as to his diagnosis and treatment methods. In this paragraph on non-disclosure of information, there are many nuances that every doctor should know and be able to apply at the right time.
However, today many doctors are no longer so concerned with the secret of their patient’s illness. We hear a lot of stories about how a person fell ill, how this or that pathology proceeded not only from doctors, but also from junior medical personnel. Of course, names are not called, but the fact remains - the medical secret has ceased to be a secret.
The doctor can tell about the patient’s state of health to his immediate family only if the patient himself does not mind or is unconscious. If the patient is in a state of insanity, relatives should also be notified of his illness.
Medical confidentiality prohibits the disclosure of such diagnoses as cancer and AIDS to even the next of kin. However, with regard to AIDS, there is legislation that criminalizes a person who intentionally infects another, knowing about his illness.
From all of the above, we can conclude that the doctor must store any information about the patient’s illness until the patient himself wants to tell her.