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My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie

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Post by mkopinsky »

casualreader wrote: post #107

Re: "There is no real confidentiality of medical records in the US, since the police can get them under very easy conditions." Very true. And sometimes police can obtain information without even having to ask. I work for a regional pharmacy outlet and it is the company policy to transmit Pseudoephedrine (PSE) Sales Log Records to the local police department every week. After writing a memo stating customers/patients…

When a customer writes down his/her name and address in the log book of Customers Who Bought Meth Ingredients, I think the reasonable assumption is that this log book will be shared with law enforcement. This active - and very visible - step of recording the information makes that sharing quite likely in the customer's mind.

If this sharing were occurring based on scans of customer loyalty cards or the like, I would be more troubled.

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Post by [deleted] »

shasta wrote: post #151
scotty79 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if I don't know what's on the paper because no one has made sure that I do then I still can be upheld on what I signed but if the guy who gave me paper to sign doesn't know what's on the paper because he didn't notice my changes then he can't be liable?

You have a duty to read before you sign a contract. In this case, they can claim you tricked them into thinking you'd signed the form contract, and that they relied on that agreement when they provided you care. IANAL, but I suspect you will lose this unless you can show that the staffer accepted your changes knowingly.

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Re: My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie

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Post by kragen »

vsync wrote: post #238
NegativeK wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's come up on This Week in Law. Someone was sending back a modified EULA in the POST data. The lawyers on the show mainly thought it was cute and not something that would be recognized in court.

I've implemented electronic signatures before and what I like to do is have the browser submit the agreement back to the server and the server rejects it if it's been altered.

That seems reasonable.

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Post by savetheworld666 »

tomp wrote: post #139
Jun8 wrote: post #86

What's really the problem with this situation is that it's really hard to point a finger to a single culprit in the system thereby pointing to a way to solve the problem. That's why it's a wicked problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem ) * The doctors cannot be blamed because they want to protect themselves (e.g. see the insane amounts of insurance required to practice medicine in the US to guard agains…

> Nutella was sued and was fined $3.6M just because people couldn't read the clear nutritional sign Did you even read the article? It clearly says that Nutella was sued because it had misleading advertising, saying/implying that it was healthy, when in reality it contains a lot of sugar. I know that Coca-Cola is bad for your health (it's pretty obvious that any sweet drink is bad for your teeth and makes you fat and…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5OUhT0v30M

coca cola is injurious to health it is a poison please see the video

Re: My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie

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Post by savetheworld666 »

tomp wrote: post #139
Jun8 wrote: post #86

What's really the problem with this situation is that it's really hard to point a finger to a single culprit in the system thereby pointing to a way to solve the problem. That's why it's a wicked problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem ) * The doctors cannot be blamed because they want to protect themselves (e.g. see the insane amounts of insurance required to practice medicine in the US to guard agains…

> Nutella was sued and was fined $3.6M just because people couldn't read the clear nutritional sign Did you even read the article? It clearly says that Nutella was sued because it had misleading advertising, saying/implying that it was healthy, when in reality it contains a lot of sugar. I know that Coca-Cola is bad for your health (it's pretty obvious that any sweet drink is bad for your teeth and makes you fat and…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5OUhT0v30M

Coca cola is a poison it is used at toilet cleaner it is a rat poison It is the major cause of Obesity It make our bones weak melt our teeth it is made up of very harmful chemicals which slowly rot our body and system

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