The research objective of the article was to demonstrate that in case of obtaining data on issued prescriptions by the National Revenue Administration in order to calculate the number of services provided by a given medical entity, the balance between the patient's privacy and the public interest is violated. It cannot be assumed that the analytical activity of the National Revenue Administration aimed at monitoring compliance by doctors providing paid medical services with the reliable accounting of their income is a circumstance justifying the acquisition of information covered by medical secrecy. Medical secrecy applies both to information related to the diagnosis and treatment of the patient and to information that is not related in this way (in the discussed case, it is the patient's PESEL number and the number of prescriptions issued for him/her). The mere information about the fact of using the medical services of a doctor of a given specialty may be considered contrary to the personal or economic interest of a given person or simply embarrassing for some reason for them, which they would like to keep in the sphere of their privacy. In preparing the work, the formal-dogmatic method was used, which is basic for legal research and served for the exegesis and interpretation of legal acts.
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