[GWfan]

The ignorance and paranoia on this thread is astounding. Of course it is a good idea for healthcare workers to communicate concerning patients. It is beneficial to the patient. For those of you who are so concerned about privacy, what in the heck are you doing on the internet???

[Iwo Jima]

"Of course it is a good idea for healthcare workers to communicate concerning patients.

You are setting up a straw man. Healthcare workers communicate concerning patients all of the time. Why on earth would you imagine that they don't? Haven't you ever gotten health care before?

State law and long-established medical ethics have contolled these interactions for decades or more. Why do we need the federal government butting in?

Once again, WHAT PROBLEM ARE WE TRYING TO SOLVE? Give me a concrete example of the way things have been done throughtout our entire lifetimes that you think is so totally unsupportable that we have to get the federal government to come in and straigthen us out?

[Afronaut]

If you are not sick then you have nothing to be afraid of.