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PETALING JAYA: The public should refrain from drawing conclusions or making misleading speculation from medical reports alone, Health Ministry director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican said.Referring to the circulation of a flyer alleging that a person was not sodomised based entirely on physical examination findings from a medical record released in the Internet, Dr Ismail stressed that one could not be certain that sexual abuse had taken place simply based on such findings.

“No lay person should make his or her own interpretation of what may have happened simply by looking at the medical records, without knowing the circumstances and other important information that only the examining medical practitioner may be privy to,” he said in a statement Thursday.

Dr Ismail said that medical records or reports should not be circulated or be published in the media in the first place.

“This is in direct breach of patient confidentiality and is liable to be used for reasons unacceptable to the medical profession.”

The STAR

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So what is this now? Another excuse? If we can’t rely on the medical report, why have a medical examination in the first place?