Author: PeterLPeterL Date: Nov 1, 2006 13:32
ltlee1 wrote:
>>>
>> Patient privacy rights. The fact that someone is in the hospital is in
>> and of itself a piece of confidential information.
>
> How so?
> Let us say I recognize X in hospital Y. I tell my friend the
> information.
> Are you saying that I am violating X's privacy? That is nonsense.
Yes that would be nonsense because you are not an employee of the
hospital. Higher standards are applied to employees, even the lowest
level of employees.
>
>> Maybe she didn't
>> want anyone to know that she was in the hospital.
>
> Then she shouldn't enter the hospital. Many celebrities choose to
> go somewhere else for operations where the locals don't know them.
>
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