Medical confidentiality is a feature of medical ethics, which is based on trust that must exist between doctor and patient. Medical work legally operate a variety of personal information that is revealed only if you’re sick. Disclosure of privacy in the medical worker is an absolutely indispensable for the development of optimal care episode and beneficial consequences for the patient. Disclosure of medical confidentiality, or mismanagement of patient data must be regarded as illegal medical facts, which harms the human being in his right to health.While in Eastern Europe, liability for disclosure of medical confidentiality is not an ordinary action, hopefully in the near future in which doctors and nurses to be aware of the importance of medical confidentiality, and patients to benefit from a real degree of protection of personal information, otherwise safe in accountability, including criminal, of the guilty.

Secretul medical reprezintă o particularitate etică a actului medical, ce se bazează pe increderea ce trebuie să existe intre profesionistul medical şi pacient. Activitatea medicală concretă actuală operează din punct de vedere juridic cu o multitudine de informaţii personale pe care persoana fizică, in alte condiţii decat cele de boală, nu le-ar dezvălui. Deconspirarea vieţii private, intime, in faţa profesionistului medical este o condiţie absolut indispensabilă pentru desfăşurarea unui episod de ingrijire optim şi cu urmări benefice reale pentru persoanapacient.