We've come to that arrangement on the basis that we need to respect the privacy of the family, we need to adhere to doctor-patient confidentiality," he said.
However, the incident sparked a debate over doctor-patient confidentiality, and how much it is respected in Egypt; as well as the consequences for parliamentarians who lie.
The issue of doctor-patient confidentiality in situations where the doctor can reasonably foresee third parties associated with the patient can be put at risk by the patient's medical status is a continuing conundrum.
Le Figaro said that Roux travelled to Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, in October, but the doctor declined to provide any details of the visit, citing a doctor-patient confidentiality.
Sadly, the OPHD has chosen to wrap doctor-patient confidentiality in a protective shroud at the expense of actually performing its duty to monitor compliance or abuse.
Benson (above) and Stabler look for loopholes in the rules governing doctor-patient confidentiality as they try to find out why a psychiatrist was beaten and left for dead.
Dr Forsyth must have been bunking off medical school the day they did doctor-patient confidentiality or he would probably have thought twice about dropping this bombshell in front of another patient who had just come in to have her blood pressure checked.