- Consider the issue of doctor-patient confidentiality from the patient’s perspective. As a patient, do you think your doctor has an absolute duty to maintain your confidentiality, or are there some circumstances in which you think your doctor would be right to violate your confidentiality?
- In your own words, explain how Fleck and Angell each answer the main question posed for this case study: “Would Carlos’s physician be morally justified in breaching patient confidentiality on the grounds that he had a ‘duty to warn’?” Of the two, which do you think gives the better answer, and why?
- Identify some differences between medical ethics and nursing ethics discussed by Sarah Breier-Mackie.
- What practical and/or ethical problems does Howard Brody identify for the community-practice and conversation standards for informed consent?
- Which of these does Brody recommend: the community practice, conversation, or transparency standard? Do you agree with him: why or why not?
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