Tajemnica lekarska po ostatnich zmianach legislacyjnych.
Medical secrecy after recent legislative changes

Summary/Abstract: Introduced pursuant to Art. 2 para. 2 of the Act of 6 December, 2018 amendments to the content of Art. 14 of the Act on Patient’s Rights and the Patient’s Rights Ombudsman, they are extremely important for medical confidentiality, because they remove from the physician the obligation and the need to settle the dispute between the relatives of the deceased, regarding the disclosure of medical secrecy and of the extent of this secrecy. Pursuant to para. 6 Art. 14 of the Act on Patient’s Rights and the Patient’s Rights Ombudsman, the court competent for the last habitual residence of the testator, i.e. the deceased patient – is henceforth to decide these issues. Changes to the content of Art. 14 of the Act on Patient’s Rights and the Patient’s Rights Ombudsman of 6 December, 2018 should be welcomed. They fulfil the demands of the medical community, end the Supreme Medical Chamber’s fight for the proper shape of medical confidentiality and meet the postulates of doctrine. In this way, the physician can devote himself/herself to his/her calling, which is to save the patient’s health and life. At the same time, the change that proves the judiciousness of the executive and legislative capacity, restores the correspondence between the Code of Medical Ethics,

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