1. This Code, pursuant to section 87 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26), governs the general and special duties that a medical technologist must discharge, particularly while carrying out a mandate entrusted to his care by a client.
It determines, in particular, which acts are derogatory to the dignity of the profession of medical technologist, provisions to preserve the secrecy of confidential information that becomes known to a medical technologist in the practice of his profession, conditions and procedure applicable to the exercise of the rights of access and correction provided for in sections 60.5 and 60.6 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) as well as provisions concerning a medical technologist’s obligation to release documents to his client and, finally, provisions setting out conditions, obligations and prohibitions in respect of advertising by a medical technologist.