The appropriate way to maintain patient confidentiality is to

A. repeat the information over the phone to make sure that you understood it correctly.
B. leave a confidential message on the physician's desk for his attention.
C. tell the physician the information in the hallway between patients.
D. put the message in a file folder marked "confidential" and place the folder on the physician's desk.


D. put the message in a file folder marked "confidential" and place the folder on the physician's desk.

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