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Confidentiallity?
For a long time, it has troubled me, that the insurance industry and government, though professing to guard our medical records and keep them confidential, has begun to allow information to be divulged from one insurer to the next, and from one government agency to the next. What ever happened to doctor patient privilege and confidentiality. Isn't the educated and good intentioned doctor the best judge of who should receive any patient information, and then only after consulting with the patient and determining the use of the information and the long term implication of that information.
Along the same lines, when someone is diagnosed with an illness, should that illness stay forever in the database of the
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insurance company or government agency. Especially when the illness, or condition may not at all be permanent or it may be reversible and non existant in the future. Insurance rates will never come down because someone had an illness and now it is arrested, cured, resolved or adequately managed. Nor will entries in federal databases ever go away if the problem, illness, condition is resolved. These things are such that once in a data base then forever in the database. Physicians have historically understood such information and the sensitive nature of this information, and have historically reported only active diseases and those that may affect the future well being of the individual. We have been champions of the patient not the databases!
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