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Answer: As per the privacy rules, without the consent of the patient as well as healthcare professionals any information provided to the other person is violation of privacy. It is important to indulge ethical principles and hence the information should not be disclosed. Confidentiality is one of the medical ethics that need to be followed. It is important to inform the patient and ask for the consent to provide information or not.
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