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Doctor, beware telling all – patients may not feel duty to keep your secret
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Doctor, beware telling all – patients may not feel duty to keep your secret
Monday 20 January 2020, 03:26 PM

Doctors have been warned, following a study, of the risks of disclosing their own illnesses to patients
“If the doctor wants to keep it a secret, then the doctor should keep it a secret. Why put that onto a patient?”
Doctors must keep their patients
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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References
Bolger L, Hall K, Williamson M. Knowing me, knowing you: a qualitative study of the effects on patients of doctors’ self-illness disclosures. Journal of Primary Health Care 2019;11(4):327–333. Online 18 December