A little privacy, please
Back in the day, this newspaper (and plenty of others) used to publish a daily list of hospital admissions and discharges. It had high readership. If it was omitted, which occasionally happened, we...
View ArticleThis encounter is being recorded
Better not bring your smartphone or pocket-size digital recorder to Dr. David Troxel’s office – and don’t even think about recording your conversation with the doctor so you can remember the details...
View ArticlePatient privacy vs. the urge to snoop
When nearly a dozen teens and young adults were hospitalized last year after overdosing on a designer drug at a party in the Minneapolis suburb of Blaine, some hospital employees apparently couldn’t...
View ArticleYou’ll like sharing your hospital room. Really.
American hospitals have spent millions of dollars scrapping old-fashioned patient wards and double rooms in favor of private hospital rooms for everyone. But maybe this strategy is entirely...
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