“Doctors should break patient confidentiality if someone might get hurt”
Agree
- Duty to warn potential victims
- Preventing harm outweighs privacy
- Already required by law sometimes
- Saves lives in domestic violence
- Catches dangerous communicable diseases
Disagree
- Destroys essential trust
- Patients won't seek help
- Slippery slope to surveillance
- Privacy is foundational right
- Who decides what 'might' means
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