Doctors should bear tort liability for revealing patients' privacy. Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public. The patient's right to privacy includes the right of patients to protect their private parts, medical history, physical defects, special experiences, pains and other privacy from any form of external invasion in medical activities. Besides the patient's illness, the content of this right of privacy also includes personal information, private activities and other defects or secrets that patients only disclose to doctors but don't want others to know in the process of seeing a doctor.
Unless otherwise provided by law or expressly agreed by the obligee, no organization or individual may commit the following acts:
1. Interfere with other people's private lives by telephone, SMS, instant messaging tools, e-mail, leaflets, etc.
2. Enter, take photos and peep into other people's private spaces such as houses and hotel rooms;
3. Shooting, peeping, eavesdropping and revealing other people's private activities;
4. Shooting and peeping at other people's private parts;
5. Handling other people's private information;
6. Invade the privacy of others in other ways.
The handling of personal information shall follow the principles of legality, justice and necessity, and shall not be over-handled, and meet the following conditions:
1. Obtain the consent of the natural person or his guardian, except as otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations;
2. Rules for publicly processing information;
3, express the purpose, method and scope of information processing;
4. Do not violate the provisions of laws, administrative regulations and the agreement of both parties.
To sum up, personal information is all kinds of information recorded by electronic or other means that can identify a specific natural person alone or in combination with other information, including natural person's name, date of birth, ID number, biometric information, address, telephone number, e-mail address, health information, whereabouts information, etc. The privacy information in personal information shall be subject to the provisions on privacy; If there are no provisions, the provisions on the protection of personal information shall apply.
Legal basis:
Article 1032 of the Civil Code
Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public.
Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.