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Case 5.1: Oliver Mytton, "Should Doctors Talk to Relatives without a Competent Patient's Consent?"
-Mytton discusses the discrepancy between how doctor-patient confidentiality is presented in ethical codes and how it can differ in practice when relatives of a patient are involved. Do you think there is reason to rewrite the rules, or is this simply a matter of the complexity of actual practice, which could never be captured by a regulation? If the latter, can you see a way to avoid the specific issue of talking to relatives about something the patient did not wish to share? Explain your answer.


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