However, under those circumstances, I totally believe a resident would violate HIPPA. That law was largely put in place to protect homosexuals with AIDS and it has imposed billions of extra dollars on top of the health care industry. It also impedes patient care, as it is often over-interpreted by the hospital legal staff who take it to mean no information can be shared with any other facility. Just ask the VA how that's working for them. Not that they care.
Hmm. Thanks. The post seems innocuous enough, describing treatment in a trauma room, and the seeming irregularities, of someone the poster later realized to be Rich.
If someone is smart enough to be a doctor, I can’t believe he would be dumb enough to reveal this dangerous (if true) information in such a worthless way. You would think he (or she) would have the sense to have a written and videoed statement witnessed by several lawyers, before setting up this target on his back. So I have a hard time crediting this story.
And yet most doctors disrespect HIPPA for their youngest adult patients. 99% of the time they come out and tell the parent everything whilenthe young adult is standing right there. They act like such authorities and then I tell them you are breaking the HIPPA laws. They feel like fools. But older teens are adults under the law and their own parents don’t have the right to blindly hear the kid’s dx even for a wrist sprain or whatever.