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HIPAA Doesn’t Exist For Doctors

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Recently a very popular colleague of mine was hospitalized. He happened to be hospitalized at the facility where he works and thus you can imagine he was inundated with visitors and friends wanting to wish him well. Unfortunately, the terms of his hospitalization were emergent and thus he did not have a choice in where he went for treatment. His frequent visitors coming into the room began to hamper his recover and his family was forced to try and enforce privacy rules and HIPAA.

This only worked on the surface. When the hospital was called, they did not reveal that my colleague was in the hospital. They also did not reveal his room number. But upon scouring the hospital and connecting with nurses people started locating his room and once again started dropping by unannounced. Imagine the nurses trying to protect the privacy of the patient from a bunch of doctors wearing white coats!

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