Prawo do poufności pacjenta w zawodzie ratownik medyczny

The article presents the relationship between the performance of professional tasks by a medical rescue worker and the patient's right to medical confidential documentation. The objective of the article is to educate people on performing the profession of medical rescue workers as well as the presentation of their duties indicated by Polish law. Research methods used: document analysis, individual case analysis, observation and interview. It was shown a multitude of situations in which a medical rescue worker can acquire confidential information about a patient. Events which exclude the obligation of confidentiality have been listed and described. Situations, in which it is not necessary to preserve the secrets of information, were listed. Moreover, the author listed situations in which a third-party is informed by a medical rescue worker about the patient's state of health without his knowledge, as well as with his knowledge and the conditions of such behaviour were explained. The author underlined that there are many regulations on the confidentiality, which concern the medical rescue worker profession, but they are included in various legal acts or they are not complete. It was found that a medical rescue worker is absolutely obliged to keep confide