Issue with father's former employer.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:56 am
My father is an orthopedic technician and had somewhat of an issue with a former employer, a doctor.
This doctor is a bit insane. He used to work at a practice with several other doctors, but he's an anti-social person (in psychiatry's sense of the word, not the common misunderstanding as "shy"). He's a very mean, rude, obnoxious, controlling person, with a very short temper. Well, the practice he worked at before forced him to go to anger management because of some problems with patients and co-workers. The guy has been in trouble a few times before and I heard he even got into a physical altercation with a patient before, which is why he was forced to leave his former practice and now he works completely alone (can't work with other doctors or at hospitals because of his personality issues).
Anyway, that's the background of it... Here's the news: My father was extremely depressed over working for this guy. All of his co-workers felt the same way. Working for this doctor was like torture. Well, my father is also an alcoholic. So, one weekend, he got completely wasted and his girlfriend called the hospital. I believe this doctor found out somehow -- maybe my dad didn't show up for work the next day, I don't know...
Well, my father found out that this doctor had actually been examining his medical records for the hospital visit and other past stuff, without his knowledge or approval. After he got back, my father said his co-workers acted a bit weird around him, so he thinks the doctors not only violated HIPA (medical records privacy law in America) by peeking into his records, but he actually talked to his wife about it, who then spread gossip around about my father being a drunk.
He talked to the vice president of the hospital's... risk management or something department... and they confirmed that the doctor illegally read my dad's medical records.
Well, my dad sent a letter to the Maryland medical board. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
This doctor is a bit insane. He used to work at a practice with several other doctors, but he's an anti-social person (in psychiatry's sense of the word, not the common misunderstanding as "shy"). He's a very mean, rude, obnoxious, controlling person, with a very short temper. Well, the practice he worked at before forced him to go to anger management because of some problems with patients and co-workers. The guy has been in trouble a few times before and I heard he even got into a physical altercation with a patient before, which is why he was forced to leave his former practice and now he works completely alone (can't work with other doctors or at hospitals because of his personality issues).
Anyway, that's the background of it... Here's the news: My father was extremely depressed over working for this guy. All of his co-workers felt the same way. Working for this doctor was like torture. Well, my father is also an alcoholic. So, one weekend, he got completely wasted and his girlfriend called the hospital. I believe this doctor found out somehow -- maybe my dad didn't show up for work the next day, I don't know...
Well, my father found out that this doctor had actually been examining his medical records for the hospital visit and other past stuff, without his knowledge or approval. After he got back, my father said his co-workers acted a bit weird around him, so he thinks the doctors not only violated HIPA (medical records privacy law in America) by peeking into his records, but he actually talked to his wife about it, who then spread gossip around about my father being a drunk.
He talked to the vice president of the hospital's... risk management or something department... and they confirmed that the doctor illegally read my dad's medical records.
Well, my dad sent a letter to the Maryland medical board. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.