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LÆKNABLAÐIÐ
Gerðardómur var endur-
kjörinn: Bjarni Snæbjörnsson,
Eiríkur Björnsson og Sigurður
Sigurðsson. Varamenn: Jón
Steffensen, Helgi Ingvarsson
og Kristinn Björnsson.
Fundarmenn voru 61.
Stjórnina skipa nú:
Bergsveinn Ólafsson, form.
Þórður Þórðarson, gjaldkeri
Guðm. Eyjólfsson, ritari.
Meðstj órnendur:
Snorri Hallgrímsson,
Ivristbjörn Tryggvason,
Bjarni Jónsson,
Ófeigur J. Ófeigsson,
Ólafur Bjarnason,
Ólafur Helgason,
Arinbjörn Ivolbeinsson,
Eggert Steinþórsson,
Páll Gislason.
G. E.
Þagnarskrlda lækna
Eftirfarandi yfirlýsing var
samþykkt á síðasta þingi Al-
þjóðalæknafélagsins (WMA):
„Professional secrecy by its
very nature must be absolute.
It must be observed in all cases
(„ergo omnes“).
A secret which is shared is
no longer a secret.
Exceptions to the rule of
professional secrecy can be
made only in special cases
such as reporting the incidence
of epidemic or connnunicaljle
diseases.
The World Medical Associa-
tion is of the opinion tliat
the ISSA Besolution* 1) concern-
ing Medical Secrecy constitutes
a violation of Medical Secrecy
and therefore can not be en-
dorsed by the doctors of the
world.
In some cases a doctor is per-
mitted, in the interest of liis
patient, to provide orally cer-
tain diagnostic information to
the controlling doctor of an
Insurance Fund, with the di-
stinct understanding that this
information shall under no
circumstances be connnunicia-
ted, to the administrative per-
sonnel of the Insurance Fund,
but used only for the purpose
of permitting the controlling
doctor to draw conculusions as
to the status of the patient. The
World Medical Association is
of the opinion that disclosure
of a diagnosis under any other
circumstances constitutes a
violation of the fundamental
principle of Medical Secrecy.“
i) Samþykkt er Internat. Soc.
Security Association gerði á fundi
i París 7.—11. sept. 1953.