[Tanzanite]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,3960835.story

Thought this was very interesting.....

[VivaLasViejas]

That figures.

Frankly, I can't imagine being so concerned about Britney Spears that I'd risk my job and/or nursing license by violating HIPAA and snooping in her medical records. I think everyone foolish enough to do so ought to have been fired....but, that's just me.

[elkpark]

This was mentioned in the original thread about this situation -- it's not as simple as it sounds; physicians are typically not employees of hospitals, and the hospitals don't have as much control over them or ability to discipline them as they do the hospital employees. I'm not saying that's any defense of the physicians' actions, and I believe they should be discplined as severely as everyone else involved -- but there are logistical issues that make that complicated ...

[Noryn]

I dont think it makes it complicated at all, as a matter of fact if the doctor is not an employee it makes it easier to severe the relationship. The article though alludes that these doctors were on staff, which is likely considering it was UCLA.

[oramar]

Do you remember that case where an oncologist was ordering an overdose of chemo, the pharmacist mixed it and the nurses gave it. No one did a darn thing to the docs or pharmacist but the nurses all lost their licenses. PS wasn't that the case where the DA was threating to charge them with a crime also?

[bollweevil]

This makes me very angry.