Posted by:
LarryF
at Tue Nov 14 18:17:31 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by LarryF ]
>>What ever happened to patient confidentiality?!!! The EMS had no legal right to ring the police.
I don't know about Indiana, but in many states here in the U.S., health care personnel are required by law to report injuries that suggest illegal activity (gunshot wounds, drug overdoses (I think), kids with lots of unexplained bruises, etc.).
We also have things like reporters (illegally) monitoring EMS radio traffic looking for good stories. They could just as easily have turned him in, or just put the story on TV, atracting the attention of the cops.
Neither story says who reported him...
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