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Chapter 4 uses a narrative of recent occurrences at the hypothetical Wayward Clinic to focus on the rights of minors to consent to and receive health care. Participants explore issues surrounding the confidentiality protections that apply to minors and the related conflicts that arise in the context of minors’ rights versus their parents’ rights. In addition, some scenarios offer the opportunity to balance confidentiality protections against the duty to warn where both the patient and the endangered third party are minors.
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Appendix A: California Health and Safety Code Sections 120975 et seq.
Appendix D: California Family Code Sections 6500 et seq.
Appendix E: Title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 2
Appendix F: California Penal Code Sections 11164 et seq.
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Appendix C: Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California 551 P.2d 334 (1976).
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Vukadinovich, D.M., Krinsky, S.L. (2001). Minors and Health Care. In: Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9674-9_4
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