article_snippet.sent: Mr Montgomery believes that current laws are appropriate, since aviation doctors are already relieved of aviation doctors duties of confidentiality if aviation doctors think a pilot could put other people's lives at risk.
article_snippet.sent: If confidentiality between patients and doctors is breached, patients will no longer trust patients doctors.
article_snippet.sent: philosopher Kenneth Kipnis argues that confidentiality should be 'far closer to an absolute obligation that it has generally taken to be' and that doctors should honour confidentiality even in cases where the patient might harm a third party.
article_snippet.sent: With respect to medical data, the criminal code means doctors are only allowed to breach confidentiality when doctors have reason to believe that sharing doctors knowledge could prevent 'a particularly serious crime' or a threat to someone's life.
article_snippet.sent: doctors can face a year in prison if doctors wrongly breach privacy, but up to five years in jail for withholding 'credible information about the planning or commission' of serious acts like murder.
article_snippet.sent: Despite the variation in sentences, doctors have tended to favour the individual's privacy.
article_snippet.sent: Luckily, breaching confidentiality and endangering relationships between patients and doctors is not the only answer.
article_snippet.sent: Along with the crucially important rule of having two people in the cockpit at all times (which violates nobody's privacy), one medical measure to avoid future catastrophes is to notify employers of stay-home orders from doctors for employees who have high-responsibility jobs without mentioning the cause of the incapacitation.