When Morality and Medicine Collide

Intimate partner violence and the limits of patient confidentiality

Vincent LaBarca
9 min readAug 27, 2020

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Photo by Melanie Wasser on Unsplash

I n medicine, second-guessing is second nature.

Should I have ordered that test? Was that the best choice of antibiotic? Maybe I shouldn’t have sent that patient to the emergency department?

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