M-9, r. 17 - Code of ethics of physicians

Section 20 Disposition versions

2015-01-07

20. A physician, in order to maintain professional secrecy,

(1)  must keep confidential the information obtained in the practice of his profession;

(2)  must refrain from holding or participating, including on social networks, in indiscreet conversations concerning a patient or the services rendered him or from revealing that a person has called upon his services;

(3)  must take reasonable means with respect to the persons with whom he works to maintain professional secrecy;

(4)  must not use information of a confidential nature to the prejudice of a patient;

(5)  may not divulge facts or confidences which have come to his personal attention, except when the patient authorizes the physician to do so or when the law authorizes or orders the physician to do so, or when there are compelling and just grounds related to the health or safety of the patient or of others;

(6)  may not reveal a serious or fatal prognosis to a patient’s family if the patient forbids him from so doing;

(7)  must , when providing professional services to a couple or a family, preserve each member’s right to professional secrecy;

(8)  must take reasonable measures to preserve professional secrecy when the physician uses, or persons working with the physician use, information technologies;

(9)  must record in the patient’s record any communication to a third party, with or without the patient’s consent, of information protected by professional secrecy.

O.C. 1213-2002, s. 20; O.C. 1113-2014, s. 2.

2012-09-01

20. A physician, in order to maintain professional secrecy,

(1)  must keep confidential the information obtained in the practice of his profession ;

(2)  must refrain from holding or participating in indiscreet conversations concerning a patient or the services rendered him or from revealing that a person has called upon his services ;

(3)  must take reasonable means with respect to the persons with whom he works to maintain professional secrecy ;

(4)  must not use information of a confidential nature to the prejudice of a patient ;

(5)  may not divulge facts or confidences which have come to his personal attention, except when the patient or the law authorizes him to do so, or when there are compelling and just grounds related to the health or safety of the patient or of others ;

(6)  may not reveal a serious or fatal prognosis to a patient’s family if the patient forbids him from so doing.

O.C. 1213-2002, s. 20.