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While one might want to remove false allegations by an ex, the next might call an expose of their corruption as a local politician false allegations. As with m
by holstvoogd 7y ago
While one might want to remove false allegations by an ex, the next might call an expose of their corruption as a local politician false allegations.
As with many things, it is all a double edged sword. Medical confidentiality? Great! Until the patient is a commercial pilot, the doctor his psych that tells him he should not be flying and the pilot decides to not tell his boss and fly his plane with everyone aboard into a mountain... (Happened a few years back)
We have to balance risks & rewards with these kinds of laws.
- Tomte 7y agoAnd how do you balance those? With the right to be forgotten and a court decision whether it applies in the special case. Your solution is "give everyone unlimited access", but that's not a balancing, that's an extreme position.
- Dylan16807 7y agoIt doesn't apply to public figures. And you need a lot of medical confidentiality or you make people afraid to go to psychologists at all, and everyone is worse off.
- jimbob45 7y agoYou're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Psychologists are one instance where medical confidentiality would help. Making people make a trip to their local clinic to hear the results of their X-ray of their broken leg because nurses can't tell you anything over the phone is fucking asinine. Surely, there are shades of gray here to be recognized.