Farrah Fawcett’s medical privacy has been breached at UCLA Medical Center. Details of her cancer treatments and speculations about her state of mind that were published in The National Enquirer were derived from the sale of this information, making this case especially egregious and painful for Fawcett. As the LA Times reports. Months before UCLA [...]
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More Snooping at UCLA: Farrah Fawcett’s Medical Privacy Breached
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Medical Privacy, Public Figures and Privacy
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UCLA Will Fire Medical Workers for Violating Britney Spears’ Medical Privacy
March 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Medical Privacy, Public Figures and Privacy
While very few others will leave Britney alone, medical professionals must be held to a higher standard. Violating anyone’s medical privacy is unethical as well as against the law. UCLA Medical Center is taking steps to fire at least 13 employees and has suspended at least six others for snooping in the confidential medical records [...]
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When Bean Counters Kill: CIGNA Says No to Transplant, Nataline Sarkisyan Dies
December 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Medical Privacy
A modern horror story. Nataline Sarkisyan died hours after CIGNA reversed its denial of a liver transplant after public protests. A grieving family is blaming an insurance company for the death Thursday of a 17-year-old leukemia patient, who died hours after the company reversed course and agreed to pay for her to receive a liver [...]
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