Claims

Breaches of Doctor-Patient Confidentiality

Follow this link for a thorough explanation of how a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality could be considered medical malpractice. Doctor/patient confidentiality is essential to successful treatment and diagnosis of a patient’s condition. Patients can reasonably expect that communications with a physician be confidential as long as those communications occur during medical treatment. This is a very important distinction, and goes to the root of the difference between doctor-patient confidentiality and a legal privilege.