"Then I hope you are a damn sight more careful in your words and your work in that context than you are here."
Thanks for your concern. "If you don't understand that distinction, please get the hell out of the medical field." I believe you are missing the point entirely. A doctor came out and told the media that 12 teenage girls where suffering from hysteria. That is not kosher under any circumstances, especially considering the how teenagers respond to some things. It is not uncommon for girls who are told their BMI is too high to start bad horrendous dieting patterns. What are they going to do when people start saying they are crazy (not the same as mass hysteria but not everyone will understand that)? The doctor is probably a shill protecting someone's interest, but not the girls'. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > and Judah, thanks for the heads up on HIPAA. I glad you told me since I > > have been working with this type of data for over 10 years. > > Then I hope you are a damn sight more careful in your words and your > work in that context than you are here. > > >You're probably right. It's perfectly cool for a doctor to say twelve > teenage > > girls are hysterical. That could never harm them like actually coming > out > > and saying that each girls does not have a specific disease. > > Go back and re-read what I said. It would be inappropriate for a > doctor to to comment on these cases. If would be a HIPAA violation to > disclose information that could be traced back to identifying > individuals. It is not a HIPAA violation to talk about the general > nature of a class of disease. > > HIPAA violation: Judah has the flu and should be quarantined for 2 > days as that is the normal period of highest transmissibility. > > Not HIPAA violation: People with influenza are most contagious for 2 > days following the onset of symptoms, so we recommend that they try to > avoid contact with individuals during that time period. > > If you don't understand that distinction, please get the hell out of > the medical field. > > Thanks, > Ju > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346557 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
