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Here' a story I bet the rightwingers will find funny
#21
'Interesting that people are ready to assume the worst of the gay partner when there's not a single lick of evidence to suggest anything other than good faith on her part.

> Does it say she was POA for health care?

FYI:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthf...pital.html

Janice was informed that she was in an antigay city and state, and she could expect to receive no information or acknowledgment as family. A doctor finally spoke with Janice telling her that there was no chance of recovery. Other than one five minute visit, which was orchestrated by a Catholic priest at Janice's request to perform last rites, and despite the doctor's acknowledgement that no medical reason existed to prevent visitation, neither Janice – who provided the hospital with a medical Power of Attorney -- nor their children were allowed to see Lisa until nearly eight hours after their arrival. Soon after Lisa's death, Janice tried to get her death certificate in order to get Life Insurance and Social Security benefits for their children. She was denied both by the State of Florida and the Dade County Medical Examiner.
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#22
I'm not assuming the worse, just trying to understand. I live in a state that isn't particularly pro-gay, but I haven't seen anything close to that. Maybe it really is a lot worse there. kj.
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#23
I read about this case in the paper and find it disturbing, but not surprising. There's certainly something going on that we do not know and my suspicion is that it deals with HIPPA.

My S/O's mother is dying up in Pennsylvania, his twin sister has POA (she's on the scene and J is here in Florida). HIPPA laws prevent J from getting medical updates on his own Mother without his sister's intervention. His sister has to provide him with some code number that will identify him as family, BUT every time they move his mother to another room, floor or facility the number changes. It also changes every 10 days for "security reasons"! This means J can call the same hospital or care facility, talk to the same nurse or his mom's doctor and they can't up date him until he has the new number.

Even his sister cannot see "mom" if the code number has changed until she pulls out the POA and proves her identity yet again. The whole thing is stupid and unnecessary. Some nanny law designed to protect 85 year old "mom" from her children? What have we come to?
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#24
HIPAA has nothing to do with visitation.
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#25
Doc wrote:
HIPPA has nothing to do with visitation.

Not true.

But thanks for outing my anti-gay agenda. I'm going to have to work harder to hide it from here on out.
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#26
Doc wrote:
HIPPA has nothing to do with visitation.

Problems with each look similar because they have a similar source. Brain-dead policy and brain-dead procedure (application) of said policy, all due to over-litigation and over-fear of litigation. kj.
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#27
Black wrote:
[quote=Doc]
HIPPA has nothing to do with visitation.

Not true.
HIPAA has nothing whatsoever to do with visitation.
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#28
Doc wrote:
[quote=Black]
[quote=Doc]
HIPPA has nothing to do with visitation.

Not true.
HIPPA has nothing whatsoever to do with visitation.
How can you let someone to the patient's bedside without effectively sharing information about that person's condition?

I continue to submit that, barring evidence to the contrary, the hospital's main concern was to be in compliance with the letter of the law, and they probably bent the rules when they allowed the partner to bedside for last rites.
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#29
Doc wrote:
[quote=Black]
[quote=Doc]
HIPPA has nothing to do with visitation.

Not true.
HIPPA has nothing whatsoever to do with visitation.
I'm not sure about that. What if a person visiting notices the patient is hooked up to an HIV medicine? What if the visitor had no business knowing that? kj.
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#30
Black wrote:
How can you let someone to the patient's bedside without effectively sharing information about that person's condition?

By keeping your mouth shut and not handing over the patient's chart.

HIPAA protects the paperwork, not the corpus.

('Just noticed I had the acronym wrong. Oops.)
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