no he cant break confidentiality - and most dont want to talk about their patients to be honest...
but hey Jay jay - ideas of confidentiality vary over the last two hundred years.
The details of Castllereagh suicide when he was pm were never really hidden
Victoria very nearly wrecked the early part of her reign over Lady Flora Hastings who died from abdo ca but not before the doctor had diagnosed a pregnancy - oops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Flora_Hastings
In Germany Virchow ( famous pathologist ) was quite prepared to lecture publicly about the German Emperors ca larynx ( 1888)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494762
Edward VII's appendicitis was well known as the cause of the delay of the coronation of 1902 - removed by Sir Frederick Treves ( of elephant man fame)
But all the queen mother would allow about her caesarian section for lack of progress of labour, was " a certain course of action was successfully followed"
In 1965 Lord Moran published a warts and all biog of churchill based on his notes of fifty years as his physician and as a consequence the BMA voted 400-2 that confidentiality should extend beyond the grave.
when Princess Di met her unfortunate premature end, the GMC warned British doctors about talking about it all (!) - none were present by the way - as they could glean more details from the public accounts than you or me.
http://ispub.com/IJRDM/1/2/12892
she died from a ruptured pulmonary vein by the way - the GMC's writ does not extend to america or france....
and so Jay Jay
yes is the answer
but the info is usually out there on the internet somewhere
( cue eery X files muzak - do-do-do-do....)