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- Title
Case for mandatory reporting of 'body packers'.
- Authors
Mitra, Biswadev; Smit, De Villiers; O'Shea, William P
- Abstract
Body packing is the term used to describe the ingestion of illicit substances for transport across control lines. Where the diagnosis of body packing is made independently in the ED, the issue of reporting the case to law enforcement officials poses a difficult scenario given the legal obligations of patient confidentiality. We describe a case of a body packer brought into the ED and subsequently reported to the police. The conflicts between patient confidentiality versus statutory exceptions to confidentiality along with case law regarding this scenario are discussed.
- Publication
Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA, 2012, Vol 24, Issue 6, p670
- ISSN
1742-6723
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/1742-6723.12012