On a similiar note I have a chap who consumes bottles of scotch and drives.
Police are poised. As he gets in his car to travel a few hundred yards so
drunk he cannot sometimes cannot get out.
I'm trying to get hold of the DVLC. Am I doing right?
Tried + leaning on him to no avail.
John Charlton.
Derby
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> From: Emile de S <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: alcohol and confidentiality
> Date: 17 March 1998 17:05
>
> 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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