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Legal advice: How to manage conflicting requests from a patient's parents

The mother of one of my patients on the children’s ward has telephoned a few times asking about her five-year-old daughter. The father, with whom the child lives, has asked us not to tell the mother anything. What should we do?
Posted 27 January 2016
 
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