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The Devil Is In the Details: How Patients' Mental Health Data Is At Risk
Chideya, Farai http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/21/how-mental-health-care-data-may-get-exposed/
Publisher: The Intercept
Date Written: 21/08/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
It seems like "Patient doctor confidentiality" doesn’t apply to other doctors. Overly diligent doctors are free to snoop around in the psychiatric medical records of their patients. As if that weren't bad enough, non-psychiatric doctors can highlight this psychiatric history on their patient's medical records. For Julia, doctors will only ever know her as the "woman with bipolar disorder". Not the "mother with a master’s degree".
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