Well how about letting the patient choose how its reported. And even letting the patient be aware that the results might be life threatening. This will satisfy

Well how about letting the patient choose how its reported. And even letting the patient be aware that the results might be life threatening. This will satisfy everybody. Most tests aren't for things like testing for HIV. So your reasoning makes zero sense as this law is applied to every test. And the whole suicide thing is obviously a miniscule issue. You're just making that crap up to sow controversy. Yeah I'm sure you encountered dozens of patients ready to kill themselves over test results but only your kind words were able to completely assuage them and stop them... Yeah sounds like a load of bullshit to me. There's no controversy here. It's a business incentive through and through. Patient choice would satisfy all patients. Only doctors wouldn't be satisfied. And that's the problem. Patients are dealing with there lives here. And Even you as a third party are painting the situation as "controversy" because you've been so desensitized by the patients you're supposed to take care of. Even though you're not in private care you are part of the problem because you're blind to the problem. I know multiple patients who had surgery in America only to go to another country for a check up for the doctor in the other country to say the surgery was completely pointless. You know how serious that is? I don't think you get it. Painting a crime as "controversial" or "political" issue is extremely aggravating for the person who's life is at stake. The only reason you characterize it this way is because you're not the one who's life is at stake. Patients aren't toxic. Patients are desperate. And most doctors including you just don't give enough of a shit. I'm sorry but that's the truth.