Are Patient Privacy Laws Being Abused to Protect Medical Centers?

By CHARLES ORNSTEIN This story was co-published with NPR’s “Shots” blog. In the name of patient privacy, a security guard at a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, threatened a mother with jail for trying to take a photograph of her own son. In the name of patient privacy , a Daytona Beach, Florida, nursing home said it couldn’t cooperate […]
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