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You mentioned this isn't the U.S. so I can't help you toooooo much it's probably mostly boilerplate language that isn't intended to actually be used.
Exceptions may be something like withholding test results until they can call you or tell you to come in. You are supposed to find out you have cancer in the office with the doctor so they can calm you down, tell you the plan, and help you make decisions. Not because some automated portal suddenly interuptYOUAREGOING TO DIE DIE DIEDIEDIE.
It's jarring and not good for patient mental health.
The other example that sometimes comes up in the U.S. with our equivalent legislation is blocking mental health adjacent notes. You have patients who you will documented "patient threatened to murder this writer, and then said 'if you write that down I'll kill you.'" You'd document this and then block the note so the patient can't see it, to protect you, and to protect the patient from doing something to you and harming themselves in the process.
Some theoretical discussion exists about things like blocking notes that call patients obese because they don't like it, but it isn't really legal.
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