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Old September 16th 08, 06:40 PM posted to uk.legal.moderated
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Default A Crime vs Patient Confidentiality


"Cynic" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:25:05 +0100, BobC wrote:

What I was really getting at was, should he have reported to the
police the fact that someone was going around with a false/someone
else's driving licence?


It is not an offence of itself to carry someone else's driving
licence, or even to claim that it is yours. You would need to use it
to gain an advantage that you are not entitled to.

If someone had presented that to me, I would have, but I'm not in the
medical profession.


What crime do you believe the person would have been committing?


I think the implication is that they are attempting to pass themself off as
someone else in order to obtain medical treatment that they otherwise
wouldn't be entitled to.

I can't see any valid reason why someone should present a third party's
documents to a doctor and claim "this is me", even if legal, it's medically
a bloody stupid thing to do.

tim




 

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