I'm a physician and I can't tell any patient's info without their authorization. It was pretty tough, because I'm a lieutenant MD at the headquarters in my city, and sometimes infantry superiors think they can give me commands to reveal patient's info just because I'm hierarcarchily inferior to their patents. It doesn't really matter because I NEVER tell them. I can notice they sometimes get a little mad but they know I'm right and they will just shut up and stop on insisisting, because they can't obviously punish me by military ways if they have no reasons to do so. If the patients info is discovered, and the patient takes notice of it, he can sue me and I will also be punished by the medical ethical commitess.
About hospital crew selling information to media, well, it's really bad that it happens, but these artists should just sue the hospital, I'm sure they'd quickly put some investigation on those and find whoever did that. I actually think, Halla, that, most of the times, it is the patient's family that give in the diagnosis to media.
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♬♪aijou de nuritsubushite
owaranai Spiral nukedasenai
mazari au mayoi sae irodukete so high
kaeshitakunai
Rise in a spiral yeah
I go insane
Dive to your paradise
(Treat me like a fool)♬♪
Last edited by ImpactBreaker; 12th January 2008 at 01:03 AM.
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