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And, surely if any doctor broke the patient confidentiality by talking to anyone else, even a parent of a minor, they would be instantly struck off.
Doesn't the Hippocratic oath mean anything?
What a Doctor is told by a patient is just as confidential as what a priest is told in confession, the state has no right to attempt to make either break this confidentially and as I said - any doctor who either refused treatment to a minor without parental permission or who broke the confidentially with the minor should be struck off, and criminal prosecution and imprisonment should be investigated as an option to further punish this action.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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