In a message dated 17/03/98 08:19:42, you write:
Did you inform her of the access to medical reports legislation.
Informed consent would require her to understand that she had the right to see
any report before it was sent.
The Access to Medical Reports Act does not apply to doctors employed by a
company for the express purpose of providing a medical opinion, only to those
who are the patient's own medical advisors, providing information to a third
party. In the former case, the patient was quite right - the doctor was
"their" doctor. Where she was wrong was to suspect his objectivity.
Incidentally, I feel that his clinical suspicionwas reasonable and that it was
ethically correct to act as he did.
Emile de Sousa
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