Huntington’s ruling on doctors’ duty to tell patient’s family

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Case establishes precedent for relatives’ right to know about serious conditions, lawyers say

Doctors treating individuals with serious ailments owe a legal duty of care not just to their patients but to third parties associated with the people they are treating.

 

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Glad about the a half of the ruling. NHS has duty to all British citizens in equal measure: the patients with genetic diseases and their relatives who may be carriers of the same diseases. But the patient ABC lost the case - that is cruel

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