Medical Assistant Prep / Unit 27 MAS 655 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Breach of Confidentiality and Defamation
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The idea
Breaching a patient's privacy, and defaming someone, are also intentional torts.
In practice
Confidentiality is a person's right to have identifiable health information kept private; defamation means false, damaging statements, called slander when spoken and libel when written.
Where people slip
Gossip about a patient or a coworker can become a legal problem as well as an ethical one.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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