You are wrong. The hospital and medical personnel involved have a responsibility to the patient; and they also face legal consequences and liability if they allow medical records to be released contrary to law or medical procedures to be done to a patient of theirs by some other person, with no legal standing.
The person in question was a patient in the hospital. He was not under arrest. Had the patient been under arrest the laws/rules/policy would have been different. There was no warrant for blood draw or access to his records/test results. LEO is the one that had no legal right to do what they were trying to do in this situation.
If she had allowed this to happen contrary to law, her license would have been in jeopardy because she would have been violating laws concerning patient care and privacy. Her employer would have also been held responsible for her actions.
“The person in question was a patient in the hospital. He was not under arrest. Had the patient been under arrest the laws/rules/policy would have been different. There was no warrant for blood draw or access to his records/test results. LEO is the one that had no legal right to do what they were trying to do in this situation.”
Thank you for understanding what I said.
In the above I am not, and have not argued against that assertion. (I don’t necessarily agree with it, but for the sake of argument I fully accept it).
In this circumstance the responsibility is with the officer and he/she will face the consequences one way or the other.
“If she had allowed this to happen contrary to law, her license would have been in jeopardy because she would have been violating laws concerning patient care and privacy.”
Utter nonsense, sorry. There is no way a nurse could be censured for following a police officer’s orders.
“Her employer would have also been held responsible for her actions.”
This is conceivably possible, but the hospital,would be in a good position to defend.
This is the nice thing about being a civil society based on rule of law. At this point it is where review of policy comes in to play on both the parts of the police and private side, in communication with each other and in cooperation to make things better for future events.
This is what is done as opposed to one side condemning and demonizing the other (and it’s always the law side being demonized).