hippa violation with teen mother

[love for nursing]

I have a friend, who just found out that her 16 year old daughter is pregnant. The concern is the parents found out from the family physician. The pregnant teen went to the family physician by herself. The doctor then called the parents and told them to come to the office. While at the doctors office the doctor told the parents that their daughter was pregnant. The teen was not in the room when the parents were told nor did she ask for her parents to be contacted. As a new Cardiac nurse, I was wondering if this was common practice or a HIPPA violation. I am just curious, my friend did not ask.

[Nefertari1279]

ITA, lupin!

[ann945n, RN]

I hope that if it is a hippa violation in the state it happend in that doctor gets whats coming to him. I fully support a federal law supporting privcay rights to minors for mental, sexual, and prenatal care. Everyone regardless of age should have the right to some basic form of privacy, even at a young age that right should be yours

[lupin]

I don't know if anyone has seen it or not, but on Yahoo news there is a story in the Top Stories category about a group of teens from a Mass. high school who all made a pact to become pregnant. There was like 17 of them. I wonder if it is a violation of their privacy for the national news to run that, since they name the high school, the age of the girls (none were over 16, yikes!), and how many there were, because we don't know them but everyone in their school will.

The sad thing is the school counselor says they did it to gain attention from their families:o. That is truly disheartening to hear that that many families are apparently missing out on some very unhealthy alerts from their kids. "Suprises" happen, to any woman of any age, but to force it on themselves just for attention, sad, sad, sad. And they don't even recognize that they are perpetuating the cycle either.