Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re: surgery pictures
From: summicron at bellsouth.net (Frank F. Farmer)
Date: Sat Jan 7 21:45:53 2006
References: <BFE45811.A67A%bdcolen@comcast.net>

You think it is bad for journalists, B.D.?  Try being a lawyer who 
defends the very healthcare institutions that refuse to produce 
records!  I pretty much have to convince self-appointed medical record 
vigilantes who fancy themselves in control of records other people own 
that they can be put in jail for failing to produce subpoenaed 
documents - and generally, I"m on their side!  Often, their  disregard 
for the actual law is mind numbing!

HIPPA, you ask?  Well, HIPPA doesn't really matter because every 
doctor's office has their own version of it.  Incidentally, I haven't 
run across one yet who has gotten it right.  It basically falls under 
the age-old premise that lawyers make horrible mechanics and neither 
make very good doctors.  That doesn't stop many of my clients from 
having their medical records custodian from trying to practice law!  
;-)

Frank Farmer
Jackson, Miss.

On Jan 6, 2006, at 4:23 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Complete and utter hell for journalists who cover healthcare 
> institutions.
> ;-)
>
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> On 1/6/06 4:43 PM, "Michael D Ierulli" <travel.on@juno.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you understand what HIPPA means?
>>
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