Re: Pill bottle label found, reclaim at courtesy desk

On May 9, 8:19 pm, Boron Elgar <boron_el...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 May 2008 20:09:48 -0400, "D.F. Manno" <dfma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >In article <ctl824t2gnslmojv8hhfhuvgadg0h7k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Neal Eckhardt <neckha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> But it is not protected under HIPPA either.
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> >HIPPA is a ****ing joke here on this psych ward. The unit is awash in
> >what's supposed to be confidential patient information. Doctors do
> >rounds in the day room or take histories in the activities room, while
> >other patients are present. Nurses chit-chat about their cases within
> >earshot of other patients. As a result, I know stuff about other
> >patients I have no right knowing (and for all I know the reverse is
true
> >as well).
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> >For example there's one patient here who is suffering from, among other
> >conditions, pseudocyesis. I know that because I was in the day room
> >while her attending was talking with her.
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>  Poof!
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> >In the case of another patient who's been here since September, a nurse
> >spontaneously explained to me the reason he's been so difficult to find
> >a suitable program/placement for.
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> >Yet if a patient is transferred to another unit after a crisis while on
> >the unit, there's no point asking staff how s/he's doing, because they
> >won't provide _that_ information. It's protected by HIPPA, of course.
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> I understand the general reasoning behind HIPPA, but it is a real
> bother to deal with it.
>


I find it endlessly amusing that I have to sign in whenever I go to my
doctor's or chiropractor's office, only to have the receptionist cross
out my name with Magic Marker, lest anyone know that <gasp> I WENT TO
THE DOCTOR!  Perhaps they should give us all little cubicles to sit in
in the waiting room, so no one can see us waiting there.