BeckAtsila writes: On day two of a weeklong hearing determined to shut down Missouri’s last abortion clinic, the state’s health director admitted he was using a spreadsheet to track the menstrual cycle of Planned Parenthood patients. Dr. Randall Williams, who is anti-abortion and has never performed an abortion, sent the state investigator, William Koebel, who has no…
Category: Healthcare
Patient’s attorney files claim against SF over Laguna Honda abuse: ‘He’s angry. He wants answers’
Joshua Sabatini reports: A middle-aged, disabled man who is among a number of patients impacted by the abuse scandal at Laguna Honda Hospital is angry and wants answers, according to his attorney who has filed a legal claim against The City. “Having those answers is part of the healing process,” said the patient’s attorney, Sara Peters, with the law…
Mayo Clinic study explores patient privacy in MRI research
News-Medical reports: Though identifying data typically are removed from medical image files before they are shared for research, a Mayo Clinic study finds that this may not be enough to protect patient privacy. The study, described in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds that it’s possible to use commercial facial recognition…
SG: High Court quashes conviction of NUH psychiatrist Soo Shuenn Chiang over confidentiality breach
Salma Khalik reports: The Court of Three Judges has thrown out the second case that the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) had asked it to review this year, after the deadline for appeal had passed. It found National University Hospital (NUH) psychiatrist Soo Shuenn Chiang had done no wrong in releasing confidential information about a patient, in a…