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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Medical Privacy, Your Teenager, and the Gov't

What do you mean you can't tell me that?




Part of a hospital lawyer's job is making thousands of pages of rules and regulations understandable to people who can go to jail for unknowingly violating them while they are urgently taking care of sick people.
Here is a well-written saga of a mom trying to protect her college daughter from getting sick with TB, and the unintended effects of regulation upon common sense:


http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/25/4/1127.full


To take action, join up with Phillip K. Howard's organization www.commongood.org.  Let's end useless and overwhelming regulations from Washington that hamper up close and personal health care.

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