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pktechgirlbackupI am in favor of patients knowing their doctors privacy policy. And I can even see the point in making disclosure mandatory, since the power imbalance is so great and people are often reluctant to be huge pains in the ass to the organization they hope will save them from extraordinary pain. But the government can't make it mandatory. All it can do it make it illegal to treat a patient who hasn't signed a form saying they were given the privacy policy. Which is why secretaries simply hand me the form and tell me to sign it, and get puzzled or outright hostile when I ask to see the privacy policy (one couldn't even figure out what I was asking). I'm supposed to sign informed consent forms in the three minutes between now and the appointment I am desperately hoping will save me tremendous pain (which I still edited- I don't actually mind them using me as a research case, I simply mind that they hide it in find print rather than telling me. And I really mind when my eye doctor does it, since, unlike a teaching hospital there's no reason for me to know going in that he's mining my case). The pharmacist makes me sign the form saying I received the medication before the medication is even in sight.
And so the mandate that doctors give me these forms accomplishes nothing, because if I struggle to change my behavior based on the forms, there's a fuckload of other people struggling too. All it is is extra paperwork.
And so the mandate that doctors give me these forms accomplishes nothing, because if I struggle to change my behavior based on the forms, there's a fuckload of other people struggling too. All it is is extra paperwork.
