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36 Hous. L. Rev. 559 (1999)
A Physician's Duty to Warn a Patient's Relatives of a Patient's Genetically Inheritable Disease

handle is hein.journals/hulr36 and id is 571 raw text is: COMMENT A PHYSICIAN'S DUTY TO WARN A PATIENT'S RELATIVES OF A PATIENTS GENETICALLY INHERITABLE DISEASE Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 559 II. THE PHYSICIAN'S GENERAL DUTY TO WARN INDIVIDUALS PLACED AT RISK BY THE PHYSICIAN'S PATIENT ................... 563 A Tarasoffv. Regents of the University of California .... 563 B. The Line of Cases Regarding the Affirmative Duty to Prevent the Spread of Contagious Disease .............. 567 1II. RELEVANT CASE LAW ........................................................... 569 A Pate v. Threlkel ........................................................... 569 B. Safer v. Estate of Pack ................................................ 573 IV. FOUR POTENTIAL BARS TO THE PHYSIcIAN'S DUTY TO WARN THOSE AT RISK OF A PATIENT'S GENETICALLY INHERITABLE DISEASE ......................................................... 575 A Privity .......................................................................... 576 B. A Physician's Duty of Confidentiality .......................... 577 C. An Undue Burden on Physicians ................................. 578 D. Genetic Information as Property .................................. 579 V. CONCLUSION ........................................................................ 581 I. INTRODUCTION One can imagine the gene to be a dam and a mutant gene to be a leak in the dam. That results in a flood 559

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