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From: mtepper@panix.com (Michele Tepper)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jamie Lee Curtis is XY (a guy!!!)
Date: 19 Mar 1997 12:48:56 -0500

Lee Boyle <boylel@nospam.com> wrote:
>On 17 Mar 1997 10:50:39 -0500, mtepper@panix.com (Michele Tepper)
>>Lee Boyle <boylel@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 Kevin@Quitt.net (Kevin D. Quitt) wrote:
>>>>Assuming it's true, the gynecologist has committed a breach of ethics
>>>
>>> he was telling a medical class, the only breach would have been when the
>>> student told the story to tdarne@uoguelph.ca
>>
>>Sigh. OK, Sparky, what I want you to do here is go do just a little bit
>>of research on "doctor-patient confidentiality." Just a little; in fact,
>>hardly any at all. Just enough to let you know how completely wrong your
>>last assertion is.
>
> My information is from the University of Arizona College of Medicine
> Preparation for Clinical Medicine course. I don't know that it was
> approved by a panel of lawyers or ethicists, but I think it passes as
> just a little bit of research.
>
> And yours?

Mine comes from the Office of the General Counsel of the American Medical Association, who quite kindly confirmed for me what I'd learned about doctor-patient confidentiality from a former staffer at the University of Michigan Medical Center's research ethics office.

Ms B.J. Anderson, one of the AMA's lawyers, explained that at teaching hospitals, patients may be asked to sign releases allowing for their cases to be discussed with medical students. No doubt this what Mr Boyle's school's course tried to teach him, and he has mistaken the specific case for a general one. Ms Anderson made it very clear that no doctor can discuss a patient's case with a group of medical students without that patient's written permission -- a permission that, from all the evidence we have of Ms Curtis's attitude towards this rumor, she is not likely to have given should that rumor be true.

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Michele "don't try this at home" Tepper

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Michele Tepper            "Feel free to provide authoritative references;
mtepper@panix.com         in the meantime, you won't mind if we conclude
                          that you're simply making this up."  -- Ian York