You think that until the tigers escape from the zoo.

What do you use to then get the cats to leave you alone?

https://youtu.be/yT3F3bWGFmU

I think it would be if the hospital did nothing and just let someone walk in with a camera and take pictures of a patient. They have a responsibility to control access to information because of HIPAA.

However, if someone does it and the hospital tries and fails to stop it, it wouldn’t be a HIPAA violation.

What we’re talking about is someone going into a patient’s room in which the patient presumably doesn’t want them there. The hospital would definitely have a responsibility to prevent that.

Well, shitty hospitals exist. That doesn’t mean that what they’re doing is right.

In the U.S. the difference is whether or not the hospital has permission from the patient.

If the patient has not given permission for the information to be released, then the hospital isn’t allowed to release it. There’s no gray area there.

I’m not sticking up for special treatment for criminals and traitors. I’m saying that everyone gets to say what information is released about their healthcare. As it should be.

For actual criminals, the police can get a warrant to get information.

And yes, a journalist can try to get information, and the hospital has a responsibility to do everything they can to prevent that.

The question was:

What is stopping him or a democratic senator from going to the hospital with a camera and finding out for themselves.

And my answer was the hospital. Because the hospital has a responsibility to protect the privacy of all their patients.

That’s all fine, but none of that relates to what I was responding to.

I was responding to this:

What is stopping him or a democratic senator from going to the hospital with a camera and finding out for themselves.

HIPAA would definitely require the hospital to prevent a democratic senator from going into the hospital with a camera.

Even if they got to the lobby with the camera, they damn sure shouldn’t be permitted to point the camera at any patient regardless of whether he was a traitorous scumbag senator or just a regular person.

That’s pretty pathetic.

I’d guess it’s primarily the same thing that prevents normal people from changing jobs: losing money, losing healthcare, not being able to pay your mortgage, not being able to take care of your family.

You must have had different HIPAA training than I did.

We were told we couldn’t even acknowledge whether or not a person was a patient without permission from the patient.

Walking around a hospital is one thing. Walking into a patient’s room to confront them is something completely different. A hospital would have a responsibility to prevent that from happening.

“The corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury, and executioner,” Platner said in an 11 minute, 15 second campaign video. “We live in a political system that is not built for normal people.”

Ok, I’m disappointed, but seriously? Is he trying to suggest that it’s all a lie, or is he trying to suggest that all normal people have a couple sexual assaults in their background?

Does he think his history counts as “normal people”?

The hospitals you know must be pretty bad.

Where I work you can go to the lobby or the gift shop, but you can’t get into a patient area without permission. The doors won’t open for you.

Same goes for hospitals where I’ve visited family. I have to call in from the panel at the door to get someone from the nurse’s station to let me in.

Too old.

HIPAA. Apart from anything else, the hospital would stop them. You don’t get to visit someone in the hospital unless the patient wants you to.

Yeah, I believe life has survived worse. The pandemic showed that things recover surprisingly quickly once you eliminate people.

It may even be more possible than science believes for us to recover if we really put effort into it. However, it is far less possible that we’ll put any real effort into it before irreversibly catastrophic consequences start happening.

Yeah, I feel like blocking @stenAanden@feddit.dk for that image alone.

As an American, I can’t imagine how horrible it is to have a leader who lies about everything. It must be rough for those people in China.

(/s if it needs to be said)

The thing that scares me the most is a clean windshield on my car.

Don’t get me wrong. I hate having dirt on the windshield. However, I remember a time when in summer I was in a constant battle to clean spattered insects off my windshield. Now I almost never hit an insect.

I haven’t moved. I still drive on the same roads I used to drive on. Either the insects have evolved to avoid roads, or they just aren’t there anymore.

Life on this planet is dying out, and we’re using all our technology and all our resources to allow us to pretend it isn’t. Eventually, the extinction will outpace our ability to compensate, and we’ll all start dying along with everything else.

I don’t actually believe life will cease completely. I think when enough people have died, they planet will recover. However, the millennia between the crash and the recovery will be unpleasant for anyone who manages to survive long enough to experience it. And the deaths of those who don’t survive long enough will be horrifying.

Probably? It’s obviously what all the bathroom bills and ID stuff is all about.