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The day she checked in, the administration pan-emailed everyone in the hospital saying, without naming Britney, something to the effect of "when certain high-profile patients are in the hospital, if you are not directly involved with their care, access to their records is audited and anyone caught checking will be fired." These people must have gotten that email, must have then snooped anyway, and then were fired. Good riddance.
Still- snooping is a pretty hard urge to resist, especially for those who know how valuable juicy psychiatric medical information about Britney would be in this gossip-driven city.
The day she checked in, the administration pan-emailed everyone in the hospital saying, without naming Britney, something to the effect of "when certain high-profile patients are in the hospital, if you are not directly involved with their care, access to their records is audited and anyone caught checking will be fired." These people must have gotten that email, must have then snooped anyway, and then were fired. Good riddance.
Still- snooping is a pretty hard urge to resist, especially for those who know how valuable juicy psychiatric medical information about Britney would be in this gossip-driven city.
You've got to be kidding.Not defending their actions, but I'm not exactly checking my work email every day. I'm usually not interested in the GR conference schedule, or the new press releases.
I can understand the aspect of selling info to tabloids, but beyond that, I'm not sure why they came down so hard on this group. Every day, there is someone in every hospital defying HIPAA. "So-and-so is on the 3rd floor, I saw their family in the hall. I wonder why they are here?"
If you've worked in a hospital long enough, you know that when it comes time to be admitted, you either keep it a complete secret, or go to a different hospital.
Bertelman checked into BFE-MC under, well, Bertelman, but of course was recognized immediately by the staff. Rumors of his "shortcomings" proved to be well-founded, as word soon spread throughout the hospital regarding his "enhancement" surgery. A number of residents that frequented SDN (not the gas guys of course) discussed the "technical difficulties" of making such a drastic anatomical change in various forums of SDN, including providing the before and after pictures for comment, not knowing that Bertelman was a frequent contributor over in the anesthesiology section. The story was so unique that it circulated around all the SDN forums, including the anesthesiology forum, where all Bertelman's buds are now fully aware of his "problem". .
You've got to be kidding.
**p.s. noci, will you bequeath your image cache to me if your SDN persona dies? It really keeps the place lively.
No, I wasn't. I'm not discounting HIPAA. I don't condone what they did. I'm just saying, it happens every day in every hospital, and infrequently leads to termination except maybe for repeat offenders. I think an example was made in this situation based on the particular patient. If any of those folks had accessed their friend's record, they would most likely have never been discovered. Were they dumb for accessing Britney? Probably.
I'll bet people being disciplined for HIPAA-type issues is much more common than you would imagine. I can tell you from personal experience that it happens in cases involving non-celebrity patients as well, and I have zero tolerance for it.
And it wasn't meant to be an insult - just a purely fictional yet colorful example. Sorry if you took offense.
Forget the avatar, I'll take the girl. She's cute.You can have my avatar too