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Because Swedes are uniquely morally upstanding and non-judgemental?
No, we're highly judgemental, but an employer is not allowed to inquire or make hiring/firing decisions with regard to your health status. Likewise life insurance might have a higher premium if you regularly engage in extreme sports, but they can't deny you. Health care is ubiquitous regardless of your condition.
Either me, my girlfriend or both of us are in those phone calls. I feel absolutely betrayed by the state. I always knew that Sweden's obsession with medical data collection would back-fire but audio recordings? That's just too much. I hope everyone involved gets sued into oblivion!
Imagine becoming a public person in the future with random russian mobs blackmailing me based on me and my family's medical history.
Either me, my girlfriend or both of us are in those phone calls. I feel absolutely betrayed by the state. I always knew that Sweden's obsession with medical data collection would back-fire but audio recordings? That's just too much. I hope everyone involved gets sued into oblivion!
I have _REALLY_ serious info in there, and so do members of my family, that can not get out. But it's effing public, and the CEO of the company responsible is handling it like an asshole and Stockholms Landsting will just add it to the pile of fuckups.
It would literally take less than a minute for a red team with IP adresses to find this out, if they ever so much as cared to consider IT-security. Why doesn't the local government force subject the companies they hand contracts to to that?
Either me, my girlfriend or both of us are in those phone calls. I feel absolutely betrayed by the state. I always knew that Sweden's obsession with medical data collection would back-fire but audio recordings? That's just too much. I hope everyone involved gets sued into oblivion!
Maybe the phone company responsible needs to have its licence revoked without compensation.
It's the comapny employing nurses receiving the calls.
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Maybe the phone company responsible needs to have its licence revoked without compensation.
Phone company? It's the comapny employing nurses receiving the calls.
I'm not clear on why medical records are so sensitive. I can understand some people might want to hide HIV status - but is there anything else? In the US people have wanted to hide prior conditions from insurance companies, but I wouldn't expect this a problem in Sweden.
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Phone company? It's the comapny employing nurses receiving the calls.
Ah that's the reason you exert the maximum pain at a high enough level - then the phone companies will take security properly and enforce it on third parties.
Either me, my girlfriend or both of us are in those phone calls. I feel absolutely betrayed by the state. I always knew that Sweden's obsession with medical data collection would back-fire but audio recordings? That's just too much. I hope everyone involved gets sued into oblivion!
Stockholms landsting. The landsting are absolutely disgusting when it comes to handing out important tasks to private companys. I have _REALLY_ serious info in there, and so do members of my family, that can not get out. But it's effing public, and the CEO of the company responsible is handling it like an asshole and Stockholms Landsting will just add it to the pile of fuckups. It would literally take less than a min…
Governments just don't follow their own rules. This means that medical files just aren't trustworthy anymore, in the sense that the patient has no control over who sees these and how far they are sent.
I could say "this is a problem in the Netherlands, Belgium, UK and US" where I know the situation is that essentially any doctor or medical staff anywhere can see everything in your file, related or not (e.g. in Belgium a pharmacist getting a woman's birth control prescription can see if they were ever treated in psychiatric care. Hell, the way the system looks, it'd literally be hard for the pharmacist not to notice). These files can even be used against you in a court of law, for example by child services.
Not that all these countries aren't very busy introducing new ways to have the state do whatever they want to do without judicial intervention (Belgium "GAS boetes" and "snelrecht", Netherlands "ZSM"), and just not care how much damage is caused to save a few bucks.
So what are you to do as a patient ? You cannot have this file destroyed, because these people have exceptions to every known privacy law. You can usually in theory have it corrected, but the system these governments put in place is fragmented into hundreds of pieces and nobody knows how it works, so good luck. Additionally actually getting them to cooperate even using an order from a judge is near impossible, and the systems may literally not support corrections in some cases.
At this point the only advice you can give is to please ask every doctor you ask to not make any notes or files on you at all, and just deal with that. "I travel a lot and this just causes trouble" is a useful phrase in that regard.
I'm not clear on why medical records are so sensitive. I can understand some people might want to hide HIV status - but is there anything else? In the US people have wanted to hide prior conditions from insurance companies, but I wouldn't expect this a problem in Sweden.
There are many more embarrassing medical conditions other than HIV status.