Interesting article about confidentiality with a pediatric patient. Something we’ll all confront one day.

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…Your role as a physician is different than your role as a mother,” Dr. Ford said. “If you lose the trust of the kid, you’ve lost a lot; they won’t tell you what’s going on in the future, and that’s not in the best interests of the kid or the parent…

…If I had been his mother, I would have wanted to know. But I was his doctor, and he wanted it kept confidential…

…You do have to make tough choices. There isn’t a little book where you look up, ‘O.K., this can stay confidential and this can’t’…