In the article the evolution of principles of access to medical records after a patient’s death is discussed and current regulations thereon are evaluated. In life, the right to access to medical records in vested in: a patient, his/her statutory representative and a person authorized by the patient. After a patient’s death the right of access to medical records is vested in, i.a., the patient’s relatives, whose catalog had been specified by the lawmaker, unless in life the patient expressed his/her objection to disclosure of medical records. A patient’s objection is not definite, as a court may allow close persons’ access to a patient’s records despite the patient’s express objection. In the article the following are analyzed: a catalog of close persons, principles of expressing objection against disclosing patient’s medical records after his/her death, prerequisites for a conceivable revoke of a patient’s objection and manners of settling disputes between a patient’s close persons.
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The opinion refers to the legal problem of admissibility of holding remote Sejm sittings. Due to the epidemics of SAR-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-2 disease, the Standing Orders of the Sejm have been amended so as to enable holding Sejm, committee and subcommittee sittings with the use of electronic means of distance communication (Part IIIa of the Standing Orders of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland). New provisions are based on the so-called parallel modes model, which means that Deputies are free to make a choice to participate in the sittings in the debate hall or remotely. Deputies participating in the sitting in the debate hall and De- puties participating remotely have equal rights, particularly as regards taking the oor, submit- ting formal motions and voting. The model of the Sejm’s works included in the Constitution does not preclude such a formula of holding sittings. The requirement of Deputies’ “presence” during voting is ful lled not only in case of their physical presence, but also in case of voting via electronic means of distance communication.
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