"Privacy Act" getting ridiculous
Now fellow providers, I am 100% for patient privacy. I advocate it wholehaeartedly and have put pen to paper more than once when one of my medics has violated that trust with the inevitable " guess who had a flashlight in their butt"circulated around the barracks.
BUT...this whole HIPAA set of standards is downright ridiculous.
The most recent case that has absolutely steamed my britches...
I have a service member stationed in Vietnam who needed medicine for a known condition that I diagnosed him and am treating him for...HE IS MY PATIENT.
So, we had a bird flying to Vietnam this weekend...I put in his prescription with the ote that the prescribing provider would pick up for delivery to the deployed patient.
DENIED!
I couldn't understand it...so I call the MILITARY pharmacy and ask...
"Sir, due to the HIPAA and privacy acts, you cannot pick up medication for anyone without their ID card." Huh?!? He is my patient, I wrote the prescription, I diagnosed his problem...there is nothing relating to this condition that is not covered in HIS and MY confidential patient provider relationship...
"Sorry Sir, we cannot help you"
Well hell...this was a pickle...
So, what to do...how far to go to get him his meds that he absolutely NEEDS...
XXXXXXXX, then shot out a message to the patient with what had to happen to get him his meds and put them on the plane.
Does this seem a bit STUPID to anyone else???
I invite discussion...
The Eagle
DAMN!: By NDD
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Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
The Reaper-3 Sep 04
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