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Professional Con dentiality in Medicine and Dentistry
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- Professional confidentiality is a fundamental ethical and legal obligation in healthcare, ensuring patient dignity, maintaining trust, and enabling safe treatment.
- The Italian Criminal Code (Article 622) punishes unauthorized disclosure of confidential information, with penalties varying based on the severity of harm caused.
- Confidentiality extends to all health professionals and is protected by both criminal law and deontological codes, continuing post-mortem for family privacy.
- Exceptions to confidentiality include patient consent, therapeutic necessity, protection of third parties, mandatory reporting of serious crimes, and public health notifications.
- Healthcare professionals must balance duties to confidentiality with the need to protect public safety, documenting all disclosures and maintaining secure data practices.