Medical textbooks have specific content and are aimed at a defined audience. This research started from a patient’s complaint to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. The patient complained that she was depicted in a medical textbook without her consent. The Authority recommended that the author, when publishing similar medical cases in the future, ensure in the photographs that the patient cannot be identified. A thorough study is made of the relevant deontological framework in force in Greece, as well as of the corresponding international rules applied in similar cases.
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