Doctors breaching patient privacy: Orwell redux

Suthers, Graeme K; McCusker, Elizabeth A; Wake, Samantha A

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03169.x

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To the Editor: Handelsman and colleagues raise concerns1 about medical confidentiality with regard to legislation in New South Wales and a recent National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guideline. We wish to correct some of their statements related to the NHMRC guideline.

Graeme K Suthers¹
Elizabeth A McCusker²
Samantha A Wake³

1 SA Clinical Genetics Service, Adelaide, SA.
2 NSW Huntington Disease Service, Sydney, NSW.
3 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: graeme.suthers@health.sa.gov.au

Competing interests:

All authors were on the NHMRC committee that drafted the guidelines.2

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Doctors breaching patient privacy: Orwell redux

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