الالتزام بكتمان السر الطبي : المفهوم، الحدود، و الجزاء

Abstract EN

It is the very exercise of medicine that is at the origin of medical secrecy.

There is no medicine without trust, confidence without confidence and secretive confidence, It is agreed that the development of a medical diagnosis is done on the one hand from the symptom that motivates the consultation of the patient and on the other hand from the personal knowledge of the doctor; but it is also done from other symptoms discovered gradually during the conversation with the patient these symptoms, which do not necessarily bother him, could be passed over in silence if the patient was not confident and if was afraid of disclosure by the doctor (eg: family illness).

As well as the evolution of society and the progress of medicine are at the origin of the current evolution of the secret.

This has led to the emergence of new concepts such as the shared secret, the consent of the patient, the very secret without intent to harm and even beyond death.

As well as the revelation of secrecy is punished by the penal code and the code of deontology, which raises many problems at the level of the application in the case where the law imposes or authorizes the revelation of the secret.