[pepperdog]

Well I guess all that privacy crap that I receive by the ton from my doctors and insurance companies means nothing, right? Why is it the government is forcing all the medical providers to assure me my privacy is the single most important thing in the world to them and then I read that in Florida the cops can go get a person's medical records? Now if it were a bookie's records or any illegal enterprise I could understand, but how on earth can they get the records from a legitimate doctor on a specific patient without the patient's approval??

[RS]

"...then I read that in Florida the cops can go get a person's medical records? "

I don't believe that in any other State the use of a search warrant to obtain medical records would ever be questioned.
The laws were to prevent the casual dispersal of your records, not to allow illegal activity to be hidden from law enforcement.