10 years seems pretty low for this tbh
This is going to set back medical trust for years
Submitted 4 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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9point6@lemmy.world 4 months ago
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Agreed. Handing over personal info is not unlike handing the wrong person a loaded gun.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
True, doctors should be held to a higher standard
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
If Goebbels Junior here got the punishment he deserves, he’d probably become a conservative martyr and rallying point. Which I think would be useful for identifying others in need of re-education.
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What a clusterfuck of a HIPAA violation.
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.
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.
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”
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.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Until it’s appealed to the Supreme Court 🙃
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.
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.
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.
ZeroCool@vger.social 4 months ago
This guy’s a real piece of shit.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
The irony of the doctor’s name not being in the headline…
His name is Dr. Eithan Haim
norimee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes! SAY HIS NAME!
We need to name and shame these people all the time.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Dr. Eithan Haim is a piece of shit motherfucker who violated HIPAA by giving it terrorists.
I hope this gets indexed and some LLM will scrape it.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Holy shit, they failed hard.
I’m sure they could have come up with a witty thing with Haim and Harm.
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 4 months ago
And we are revoking his license, right?
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 4 months ago
At least in this administration.
Don’t forget to vote in November. I know we all said we aren’t voting for Biden but the realities for project 2025 are beginning to set in.
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I never said I wouldn’t vote for him because it’s been obvious since 2021.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Probably a slap on the wrist. You know, cuz trans. :(
shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Facing possible jail in Texas isn’t exactly a price being paid, is it?
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Compromising PII is a hipaa violation, that isn’t taken lightly anywhere. He may not get the full 10 years but he will be slapped for this.
norimee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Will he loose his licence for this? Because he should. Anyone leaking patient data on purpose should never have access again.
shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
What I mean is even if he was facing the death penalty or 1 billion years in prison, he hasn’t paid, has he. The penalty has been added to cart.
Tangent: I have no faith in the American justice system, much less in any red state’s “justice” system. He’ll get slapped…on the wrist…using some mental gymnastics about whistleblowers or something like that.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I dunno, man. Texas is a human rights violator through their prison system. I imagine it won’t be a picnic.
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, they grow their own food and make their own clothes, so after a day of hand picking cotton, you get to rest in your cell with no A/C.
Not all of them are self suffcient in this way, but it is not easy time at all.
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Rot in hell, asshole
cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just 10 years for violating HIPAA? I would thing it would be longer
Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 months ago
He probably won’t get anywhere close to 10 years, if he even gets prison time.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Violate a person’s rights, slap on the wrist. attempt to overthrow the country, slap on the wrist. Tell the country they shouldn’t bomb kids and try to feed them at the same time, added to a terrorist list.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was thinking the other way around. Pretty long for that type of violation, but I haven’t read the article yet. It’s making me think it’s probably data on quite a few patients which would, or at least should, give them a longer sentence.
masquenox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The people that are desperately clinging onto the hope that this is any kind of victory needs a reality check.
In the extremely unlikely scenario that he actually gets jail time they’ll be high-fiving him all the way in - and you better know that any parole hearing he’s going to get (which will probably be sooner rather than later) will be staffed by people who think exactly the same way he does.
Hierarchy is the bedrock of reactionary politics - and it doesn’t get any more hierarchical than the (so-called) “justice system.”
Streetlights@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For what possible purpose would he need medical records? It can’t be money surely.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For finding and eliminating the “vermin” the orange shit stain keeps screaming about.
So, are all conservatives blood lusting, self centered, self absorbed ass holes?
ZeroCool@vger.social 4 months ago
Yes, and the ones that claim not to be, even if they truly believe it, are voting for those who are. And at that point it’s a distinction without a difference.
Streetlights@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Elimination? He should be up on terrorism charges. Was he passing the info onto some sort of right-wong militia group?
norimee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not about the details of care, but the general information on who is transgender and who was providing or was involved in the care.
With the purpose to “cause malicious harm” as the article says. Which means, they will harass and try to scare involved parties into hiding, leaving or stopping to provide care.
This Conservative activist already published the information to discredit the children’s hospital, create a scandal on how they are harming children with the goal that the hospital will stop providing care in fear of bad press.
Their goal is to scare every trans person back deep into the closet (or to leave) and to scare all possible care out of existence, even when legal.
The basic motive is HATE. Plain and simple. Hate of that what is different and the need to control the people around them to live by their beliefs and moral standards.
Streetlights@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thank for taking the time to lay that out for me. I am unable to comprehend the motives, but that at least starts to explain it. Unthinkable.
Dude forgot his hippocratic oath.
ZeroCool@vger.social 4 months ago
It was purely ideological. He claims to be a whistleblower, but he’s just a bigoted asshole that has no business working in medicine.
Streetlights@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I still don’t get it though, how does having medical information do anything for his ‘ideology’? Dude committed a felony.
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
First guess was Florida, second was Texas.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I hope for everything he deserves and more, conservatives are freaks of nature.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
What’s ironic is that THE BOYS AMZN SPOILER
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psycho_driver@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Face so punchable. He’ll be popular in prison.
ours@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sadly he’ll be welcomed and protected by prison Nazis.
HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fuck oaths, amirite?
librejoe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
[deleted]meliaesc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Who asked you to “agree” with how someone feels about themselves? Yes though, this is absolutely fucked up.
librejoe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nobody asked me, I’m allowed to have an opinion.
jose1324@lemmy.world 4 months ago
🤡
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Activists don’t need the personal information of people they disagree with. Terrorists do, charge them accordingly.
Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Terrorist-a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aim
Hmmm… that DOES sound a bit familiar…
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Terrorism needs victim to be an indefinite number of persons.
masquenox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Speak for yourself. If you believe that intelligence work is beneath you, the other side has already won.
Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
That is not what they’re saying. They are saying that there’s only one reason anyone would need the name and address of trans children and that is to terrorize them. Even if they say they have a different reason (history shows that they don’t) the one only effect that they could and would have is terror.