Patients Doctor Confidentiality

i have a few questions do doctors even take their oath seriously anymore?

shouldnt the doctor's oaths some how help protect a person's individuals rights?

i mean a lawyers cant just turn in his client he is bound by client lawyer privilege and whatnot.. usually when it does happen they lose their job and even can get their statements thrown out or dismissed in a court of law...

the police cant just arrest or force a lawyer to divulge information or even arrest them for obstruction of justice when he is defending his client.

i believe the Constitution protects ppl from incriminating themselves and suspicion is not enough to arrest a person of a crime...

what happens to head shrinks or a priest who violate a person's privacy due to suspicion or maybe a confession?

i mean what is the point of taking oaths if you dont live by them shouldnt ppl whose jobs require to uphold those oaths be legally accountable regardless of what criminal outcome in a court of law?

so my question is why isnt that it seems more and more that Doctors inform the police of injuries without consent of the patient of the parents or person.

shouldnt they be sued or fired regardless if their suspicion proves current down the road or not?

i remember at least two times that i had the police called when i was at the hospital.. i was pissed b/c i felt it not only violated my constitutional rights but also patient doctor privilege..

i feel that more and more the society i live is trampling the line of constitutional rights all in the name of might haves and might be arguments.. which to me is more totalitarian big brother rather then constitutional and respect of individual rights..

The oath is limited. It isn't said anywhere in their confidentially oath that they must never release confidential information ever to anyone under any circumstance. They're justified in releasing information if lives are at stake. If a woman comes in every Friday with a black eye and a mild concussion from her Husband smacking her around in a drunken fury; it's the Doctors duty to report that; because the husband could kill her.

Not to open a can of worms, but, I think it's ridiculous how people cling to the Constitution as if it's some infallible code of ethics. Imo, the Constitution is outdated in certain regards.

The Hippocratic Oath is obsolete. It says to groom the sons of doctors to become doctors, and to not "cut stone" but instead leave it to the barber.

Its also anti-abortion and against doctors participating in state executions with "I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan" in its wording, but in the US doctors do both.

i am curious since i once got hurt and had to go to the hospital..

i sit in the emergency room and i am bleeding to death from a stupid accident and i finally see a doctor an hour later.. i can barely stand and i am yellow... he looks at me gets the nurse and he comes back 2 minutes later..

about 5 minutes later the cops shows up and interrupts my procedure,.. starts to ask questions and yelling at me.. i tell him to **** off.. here i am dying and and i am spending what i feel could be my last minutes fighting with a fat pig who doesnt realize i dont give a f#@$ about him and his BS..

telling me he is goin to arrest me if i dont make a statement and tell him how i got hurt,,, i was about ready to grab a scalpel and stab his @$$ as my last act.. this doctor had no right to do what he did and the cop had no right to threaten me with jail time if i refuse to give him a statement.

he only back down when he saw my mom and friends otherwise, i am sure he would have lied and tried to drum up some false charges. the doctor finally told him to leave that he was intervering with my treatment.

thats not doctor patient confidentiality though, thats you turning up at a hospital with a questionable wound

EDIT: and it seems like the doctor was on your side anyways

only b/c he realized he f@#$ed up and he couldnt clean me up and close the wound... also it was his fault to begin with.

my real question could we have sued should doctors be sued when their suspicions prove to be wrong and simply added to emotional and criminal problems?

from what I can gather:

you injured yourself in a suspiscious, though non-criminal manner. Given how non-forthcoming you are with details here, and your notable temper when faced with authority figures, I imagine you told the doctor something like "not your business" when he asked what happened. The police got involved, and you fought with them too. Finally the doctor sees his error, fixes you, and tells you the police were wrong to act the way they did.

no, I don't think you could sue

i told the doctor it was a puncture with a sharp edge... while goofin around, that was it.

i told him so he could fix the injury.

actually it was a hypothetical question since patients have sued and won against doctors for calling the police and reporting their injuries.. 😛

what i really want is opinons for or against it

Originally posted by King Castle
i told the doctor it was a puncture with a sharp edge... while goofin around, that was it.

i told him so he could fix the injury.

actually it was a hypothetical question since patients have sued and won against doctors for calling the police and reporting their injuries.. 😛

what i really want is opinons for or against it

Is that what actually happened?

yes, i was punctured by a sharp edge item. 😐 pretty obvious to me and the doc.

Originally posted by King Castle
yes, i was punctured by a sharp edge item. 😐 pretty obvious to me and the doc.

Did it happen while goofing around or while you robbed a liquor store?

doesnt matter suspicion isnt a crime and it isnt reasonable to assume the worse whether a person refuses to talk or not.

which is why doctors have bn sued for defamation by their doctors as well as police for violation of their constitutional rights.

example: searching the patients clothes/ items without a warrant while they are in bed unconscious...

suspicion is not probable cause nor a crime!!! its illegal!!! when will you guys learn this?! when will society stop thinking its okay?!

Originally posted by King Castle
doesnt matter suspicion isnt a crime and it isnt reasonable to assume the worse whether a person refuses to talk or not.

which is why doctors have bn sued for defamation by their doctors as well as police for violation of their constitutional rights.

example: searching the patients clothes/ items without a warrant while they are in bed unconscious...

suspicion is not probable cause nor a crime!!! its illegal!!! when will you guys learn this?! when will society stop thinking its okay?!

I must have missed it, did you answer my question?

http://www.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/doctor-patient-confidentiality

It is not absolute, the laws covering what can and cannot be divulged vary from state to state, and in most states there are things that doctors are required to report.

And if someone turned up in the ER bleeding from a puncture wound...then I'd be surprised if the police weren't called. They have no idea if you were stabbed by another person, involved in a robbery, or it was simply an accident; they don't know if you're telling the truth or not.

Also, the 14th Amendment, which covers the right to privacy, protects against privacy invasions by the government. While doctor-patient confidentiality generally is covered by this, it's not absolute at all.

i goofed up.. i wasnt robbing a liquor store.