What is the test for disclosing personal information to a doctor?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from O.W. v. W.P., 2001 ABQB 735 (CanLII):
In McInervey v. McDonald 1992 CanLII 57 (SCC), [1992] 2 S.C.R. 138 La Forest J. speaking for the majority said: ...information about oneself revealed to a doctor acting in a professional capacity remains, in a fundamental sense, one’s own ... The confiding of the information to the physician for medical purposes gives rise to an expectation that the patients interests in and control of the information will continue.
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