Disclosing a medication is prescribed equals HIPAA violation
Allowing third party to remove medical records without proper release …HIPAA violation
Allowing patient to dictate contents of your medical record : unethical and unprofessional
This guy needs to be quiet or risk further embarrassment
Heart meds. It’s a vasodilator, was developed to treat certain types of hypertension. Was better at causing boners.
Maybe it prevents pubic hair loss.
I can’t really say I’m upset much about the government’s privacy invasion of a doctor who admits he violated doctor-patient confidentiality by telling the news about a patient’s hair medicine prescription.
Why does anybody do anything with Trump? He is going to throw you under a bus at some point.
I’ve never entirely trusted those results. Anecdotally, I’m a 29 year old taking finasteride, and I’ve not encountered any problems with my *cough* abilities. Considering that the majority of people taking a drug for hair loss are going to be quite a bit older than me, I wonder how convincingly the correlation can be parlayed into causation.
According to a friend who has spent three years doing health record compliance audits for Novant, this is incorrect. The information in the records is private, but that’s not the same as saying it’s owned by the patient. The facility may not release the information without the patient’s authorization. “Release” does not mean “surrender all copies of.” The physical records are legally the property of the medical facility. Removing these without the facility’s permission is at the very least theft.
I don’t know, but it may have something to do with this:
Oh, absolutely. In this case, it’s out-and-out thuggery. There are documents required for the removal.
It’s been over a decade since I last had HIPPA training, but I recall a formal process for either requesting or demanding that a health care provider surrender all records other than those required for pending claims to the patient. There may or may not be prior cause required (such as inappropriate disclosure of confidential patient records). The specifics, I will admit, are fuzzy. It wasn’t the most engaging training in the world…
The “Stupid Watergate” comparison continues apace.
Thank you for that correction 
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