Comment on This is going to set back medical trust for years

gndagreborn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  HIPAA seems to be one of the rare laws that actually results in significant damages. Will be interesting to see the size of the fine on this.

  Likely the hospital gets hit as well for allowing him access to medical records on patients he had nothing to do with. Shouldn’t have been possible in the first place.

  This guy’s career is over. I’m sure he’ll do okay financially by selling ivermectin to bigoted dimwits, but I doubt he will be practicing real medicine ever again.

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shouldn’t have been possible in the first place.

    I have yet to see a EHR that has access restrictions that would prevent this. Instead it’s just logged and if irregular enough you get to have a hostile conversation that could lead to this.

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    • acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah when I read that I was like, so all I have to do to get medical records is call and ask? Like I don’t even have to have any affiliation apparently.

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In my experience working hospital IT medical providers can get away with a lot more shit because people try to expedite things for them so they don’t have interruptions caring for patients. The places I worked had processes in place to prevent this sort of thing but I had a fuckload of arguments with various middle managers trying to bypass those when a provider bitched that they didn’t get what they wanted right away.

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  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Correction: his career has changed. He will be taken in as a consultant in some right wing think tank and start shaping the direction of the movement, because he “took action”

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or at the very least, get this own alt-right podcast.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “So what were you doing doing this gap in your employment?”

      “Prison wife”

      …

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      • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “It’s not gay if it’s rape” said that guy maybe.

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  • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nono, his new career as a right wing mouthpiece is just beginning. He’ll be up on stage with MTG and Rittenhouse complaining about cancel culture and how woke has invaded hospitals and how you shouldn’t listen to doctors.

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    • MrScruff@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait what did Magic: The Gathering do?

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah he should sign up to be the next ~~ronny johnscan ricky jacksham rocky jornsman ~~you know, trump’s last doc

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until it’s appealed to the Supreme Court 🙃

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  • HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t jinx us now… there are plenty of idiots in Washington willing to pay idiots to say the things they want said.

    I’d wager this asshole would be willing to say a lot.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actual and deliberate HIPAA violations meant to cause harm, mind you, not what a brainless antivaxxer thinks is a HIPAA violation.

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• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Multiple violations, because he released multiple patients’ info. Off the top of my head, I believe it’s up to $250k and 10 years per violation, but the jail time could be served concurrently instead of consecutively.

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