The Legitimacy of Medical Personnel"s Right to Disclose Epidemic InformationZeng Rihong, Jiang Baisheng,Institute of Medical Humanities, Nanjing Medical University,Nanjing , 211166 ,China
The timely disclosure of epidemic information is of great significance for effective prevention and control of the epidemic situation. As a group that has been exposed to the epidemic situation earlier,medical personnel have been given the right to disclose the epidemic situation information in various forms by the law. This right is free from interference and obstruction by other subjects. Jurisprudentially, the establishment of medical personnel"s right to disclose epidemic information is an inevitable requirement to realize the patient"s right to informed consent. In fact, the medical behavior is open to a certain degree. Epidemic information is a public information resource in a specific field, and medical personnel"s disclosure of the epidemic information is an objective requirement of the modern collaborative medical model. Logically, the social nature of the medical personnel determines that they can decide to disclose the epidemic information within a certain range.