Mistaken disclosure to nonphysician leads to lawsuit
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, May 26, 2008
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If you look like a doctor and walk like a doctor, you still may not be a doctor.
An ER physician at
A patient was in the ER for treatment during May 2005 when his physician approached another man—whom he assumed was a physician because of his attire—to discuss the patient’s HIV/AIDS positive status, according to the article. That man, however, was the patient’s supervisor, not another hospital physician.
The patient is now suing
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