Zye Angiwan reports: Hospital staff taking photos of patients’ genitals makes headlines again, this time at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Bedford Memorial Hospital. A whole crowd had gathered to snap pictures and record videos of an unconscious patient’s genitals that had a foreign object protrusion, The Washington Post reports. One staffer described it…
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The Utah Blood Draw Story: Drawing Unwarranted Conclusions
David Edquist and Aaron M. Smith of Briesen & Roper write: The viral video of a Utah nurse being arrested for refusing to draw blood from an unconscious patient brought into the public view a legal conundrum faced by health care providers. The ensuing public conversation generated abundant concern for the nurse, criticism of the…
Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Sued Following HIPAA Violation
Elizabeth Snell reports: New York-based Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital is being sued for faxing patient PHI to the patient’s employer, a reported HIPAA violation that has already resulted in an OCR HIPAA settlement. The Law Offices of Jeffrey Lichtman represent the client whose PHI was exposed, and explained in a blog post that the…
Is Doctor’s Disclosure of Patient’s HIV-Positive Status Medical Malpractice?
Michael C. Ksiazek writes: A recent New Jersey case addressed a statute of limitations issue pertaining to claims arising from a physician’s disclosure of a patient’s HIV-positive status to a third party without his consent. Plaintiff was a patient of the defendant physician, a board-certified nephrologist. He was being treated for acute kidney failure. During an emergency…