VII 35_ CODE OF MEDICAL DEONTOLOGY - PROFESSIONAL SECRECY Article 27.1 Medical secrecy is one of the essential pillars of the doctor-patient relationship, regardless of the form of professional practice. Confidentiality of their information is a patient’s right and a social good that generates an obligation of inexcusable secrecy for a doctor. Article 27.2 Medical secrecy obligates a doctor to maintain the safekeeping and confidentiality of everything the patient has revealed to them, what they have seen and deduced, including the content of the medical record, as a consequence of their professional practice, and that is related to the health and privacy of the patient. Article 27.3 Being a doctor does not legitimize or authorize access to a patient’s confidential information with whom there is no professional relationship. Article 27.4 A doctor also has a duty of secrecy in his social, work, and family environment. 7
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