Sanjoy Kumar: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- medical doctor
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“I think the safety of society as a whole, even as a doctor, overrides the autonomy of a single patient. There are well-laid guidelines, if a doctor knows that a patient may bring harm to someone else, the doctors are obliged to actually break that confidentiality. It didn't happen in our case.”
Where Sanjoy Kumar has been quoted
- Parents of Nottingham attack victim say medics must breach confidentiality if patient is risk to otherstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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