PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS - MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY IN LATE VICTORIAN BRITAIN

Do doctors have the right, indeed the duty, to keep confidential everything that is imparted to them by their patients? Such secrecy certainly seems to be demanded by the Hippocratic Oath: Whatever, in connection with my professional practice or not in connection with it, I see or hear in the life of men which ought not to be spoken abroad I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. © 1993, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.