Put patient health and well-being first
Make the patient's health and well-being the physician's first professional consideration.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Maintain confidentiality after death
Continue protecting confidential patient information even after the patient has died.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 0/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 1/41
- Represented systems
- 1/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/1
0.0%
2.4%
1.1%
100.0%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Continue protecting confidential patient information even after the patient has died.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Evidence, mapping by mapping
1 selected mappings
WMA Declaration of Geneva · Specific primary/official anchor
Maintain confidentiality after death · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
WMA Declaration of Geneva: respect patient secrets after death
Open original source ↗ www.wma.net
Specific primary/official anchor · Professional medical ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact wording, institutional status, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10616. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Respect patient autonomy and dignity
Honor informed choices, bodily integrity, personal values, and the equal dignity of every patient.
Do not let prejudice interfere with medical duty
Provide professional care without discrimination based on identity, belief, status, disability, or political affiliation.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 605 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 596 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 457 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 40 |
| Religions Sharing | 0 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 0 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 1 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 2.4 |
| All Systems Sharing | 1 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 1.1 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 100 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 0 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | -2.4 |
Specialized or emerging teaching