[Magdalen] HIPAA Redux

[ME Michaud]

Two memories of pre-HIPAA behavior:

a politically active medical secretary faxing the hospital records
of a gubernatorial candidate to a rival candidate's office

a young physician requesting his wife's medical record because
he suspected she'd had an affair before they married and wanted
to know of she'd had an abortion

And those are only two of dozens. The early period of the AIDS
epidemic was awful.

At one time I was a HIPAA trainer and I used to say "Never again
will you begin a sentence with 'Guess who I saw in the hospital.'"
-M