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Post by Yossarian on Nov 14, 2006 22:14:03 GMT -4
This one is kind of strange: why would anyone post on a wrestling site about Belinda Emmett's death anyway? And who knew that Big Brother's Krystal was hospitalised after a drinking binge? And who cares? Either way, it looks like someone at St. Vincents has forgotten the bit about patient confidentiality.
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december
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Post by december on Nov 15, 2006 0:19:31 GMT -4
Here's a question, kinda related to the Belinda Emmet thing, in a hospital does the concept of paitent confidentiality extend to all who work there? So if a janitor or workman or cafeteria worker overheard something are they bound by that?
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ang
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Post by ang on Nov 15, 2006 1:50:58 GMT -4
I've been a member of that wrestling forum for years. And I know (in that internet friend sort of way) the girl who posted the info as well.
It would have just been her passing on the gossip/news, which happens a lot. The issue is that she found out from a nurse - and I wouldnt stay in a hospital that has staff with such loose lips.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2006 3:18:35 GMT -4
- and I wouldnt stay in a hospital that has staff with such loose lips. If was dying I wouldn't give a damn really.
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ang
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Post by ang on Nov 15, 2006 3:45:20 GMT -4
I guess so - but Ive got masses of crisis cover insurance so that if I get cancer or any other terminal illness, I get the best of care, in the best of hospitals.
This place has leaked info before - maybe it was the same person leaking things, maybe not. But I'd hope for a better standard of staff in a private clinic. Is St Vincents private or public?
Kylie managed to have the utmost privacy when she was in hospital, Belinda should have been given the same privledge.
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Post by hal9000 on Nov 15, 2006 6:29:02 GMT -4
As far as confidentiality goes - people talk, no matter what the law says. It's rarely malicious, it rarely goes into detail, but a doctor might let something slip to a secretary or staff member, a lawyer could make an off the cuff remark to a spouse or one of his kids, and there it goes.
St Vincents comprises both private and public hospitals. My mum stayed in the private hospital when she had her tumors removed, and the staff were fantastic. I would not hesitate in being treated there.
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Post by marywebgirl on Nov 15, 2006 10:23:02 GMT -4
This example is a US hospital, but two years ago an oderly was fired from the hospital where my husband works because he did a TV interview about the condition of a football player he had seen getting a scan. His face was blurred and his voice was altered in the video, but they managed to figure out who it was and he was gone.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2006 11:37:53 GMT -4
People do indeed talk, and let's not forget that Belinda was a major celebrity, at least in Australia. In the US, I've seen information leaks about celebrity hospitalizations (LiLo, anyone?) that would normally be considered a major breach of confidentiality. In fact, I'm kind of amazed that there haven't been more celebrity lawsuits related to the leakage of medical information.
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Post by 180deg on Nov 15, 2006 12:30:20 GMT -4
It depends on exactly how they got the information. For your general non-medical staff (no access to wards/computers etc.) they won't have access to anything confidential, so technically they wouldn't be bound by confidentiality requirements (eg. saying you saw a celebrity in the hospital parking lot is okay, because it's a public area). However, if you're medical staff (eg. the St. Vincents nurse) or other worker with access to patients / confidential information (eg. orderly in the above example) and you start gossiping outside of secured areas (eg. in the cafeteria) you're in big trouble. If anyone overhears you and spreads the information they could be in some trouble, but less so than the person who broke the confidentiality in the first place. I'm a former hospital worker (with access: oh, the stories I could tell ), and while I don't think I had a specific confidentiality agreement, I did suffer through the monthly lectures on how if you spoke a word about a patient to anyone who wasn't authorized, or mentioned anything outside the walls of the secure zone, you would Go To Hell. Or Jail. Or Be Fired. Or Get Sued. Or Have An Appendage Removed By Trainee Medical Students.
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Post by Yossarian on Nov 15, 2006 18:16:05 GMT -4
Last night I was going on my daily walk and as I was trotting along the foreshore I saw all these people in matching outfits being interviewed. At first I thought it was some uni project but then I got closer and they were all wearing *The Biggest Loser* t-shirts! I think I happened upon them just as they had finished some task. My immediate thought was "wow, they're not *that* fat" but then I realised that they might be close to the end of filming (although there were three mini-vans worth of them so who knows?). That's my dorky Australian pop culture story for the day.
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