The professional and legal duty of confidentiality owed by a doctor to their patient continues after they have died. As the following case demonstrates, requests for copies of a deceased patient’s records may involve the consideration of complex and competing issues, particularly the question of “who stands in the shoes” of the deceased patient.
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