Confidentiality appears to be both common sense and professionalconvention as per the Hippocratic Oath in the sense that what [ahealthcare professional] may see or hear in the course of treatmentor even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of[patients] [they] will keep to [themselves]. This seems to bean obligation not only of those who are called up to take the oathas a matter of course but *all* healthcare professionals.