steph1315

I am in total shock at some of the other comments as well. This just happened to me and I still have not contacted the hospital because not sure what to do but I am furious not to mention it could have been a bit more serious than me just getting someone else's papers. I got discharge papers from an urgernt care center and when I left I always look at my diagnosis....never reading the top of the paper because I know who I am, and all I see is Humon Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). My daughter is in the car with me so I tried to keep calm and put paper away til I could review it later. Well that later was that night so here I am upset thinking I have HIV and no one has ever mentioned that to me and how am I gonna tell my little girl? Well I go to pick up my prescriptions and apparently she was given similar prescriptions as me but hers were for high blood pressure which I do not have. I started feeling funny so I took a look at the discharge papers and read about the prescriptions I picked up and they had called her prescriptions in for me. If the nurse would have just verified my date of birth before giving me the sheet none of this would have taken place. I am not sure if I should contact the person this information belongs to or what I should do but I would be beside myself if I was her and she wanted no one to know of her diagnosis. As for the clinic I think the person should lose their job because that is normal procedure for HIPAA regardless of the diagnosis to verify who the person is matches the medical record. It was just one simple sheet of paper that I got and look what it caused not to mention what could have happened taking someone else prescriptions, especially beings im on Gabepentin already and you have to be very careful what medicines you mix with it. What's your thoughts on that?