Sorry I couldn’t word that better, but I don’t know the proper term. My vocabulary is kind of limited and I have trouble putting thoughts into words.
I always see stuff about this rule, but I don’t really understand it. You can’t talk about what’s said during this appointment, but what does that entail? And what are the exceptions to this rule, because I think there are, right?
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So you’re talking about dr-patient confidentiality. The gist of it is that your dr can’t talk about you to ANYONE without your permission with some exceptions (for instance your dr has to tell the police if you get shot, they have to tell the DMV if you have a seizure and have a driver’s license, and I think there’s a few other exceptions).
The idea behind it is that you need to be completely honest with your doctor to be able to get proper medical treatment and so they want to take away reasons you might lie (for instance when I was in the hospital my roommate had OD’d on cocaine. he needed to be able to tell the doctor what he’d taken for his treatment but if she could have ratted him to the police, or his wife, he’d have been more hesitant to).
There’s other professions with similar rules. For instance clergy are basically never allowed to report a conversation intended for spiritual guidance. And lawyers iirc can only report if they believe a violent crime is about to be committed. And even that one is controversial
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