Complaints Made to the Council for Mass Media in Finland Concerning the Personal and Professional Lives of Doctors

摘要: The Council for Mass Media in Finland is a self-regulatory board of journalism that evaluates complaints concerning the execution Finnish Journalism Guidelines. Between 1995 and early 2002 26 verdicts given by dealt with matters related to private lives or work medical professionals. These cases were analyzed order determine limits acceptability treatment physicians media. Four key themes identified: rights an interviewee, right subject negative publicity defend physician’s privacy media impact on patients’ health choices. Results: patient-doctor confidentiality may pose challenge doctor’s him/herself publicly; profession should not be mentioned if it has no relevance event being reported; well existing paradigms.