You are saying that Casey’s friend can not mention any procedures that happen in the hospital where she works.
Actually, we only know what Casey wrote. What Casey wrote is that someone some place is scheduled for an abortion on the OR list. Why Casey’s friend called this an abortion, we do not know. Maybe it is an abortion, maybe it is something else. We pray for this mother in any case.
Can you express to a friend in a private conversation that you had a bad day at work?
How about we answer this question. Now that her friend knows, what can she do about it? My understanding is that Casey mostly wants to know if her friend can approach the patient. Moreover, talking to the patient is obviously not a confidentiality breach.
Suppose the hospital worker seeks counsel from a priest about such a situation without saying the person’s name… simply “I work in a hospital where abortions take place, how can I touch the lives of those seeking abortion.” Can she seek such advice while still maintaining privacy laws?
I have personally been privy to a coworker being fired for discussing the details of a patient’s condition with an employee who was not involved in the patient’s care. No patient name was mentioned.
Sure, she can seek advice to armor herself for next time. She cannot get anyone involved with a specific case where she works. She will be fired.
Sound advice.
I’m totally against abortion, but your friend has done a very bad thing by bringing this woman’s private affairs to you and by default to the world!. OR lists only ever record the procedure to be carried out, not the reason for it. Perhaps the child is dead in the womb and needs to be surgically removed? Your friend should be sacked. If you approach this woman I can guarantee that one or both of you will end up in court!
casey zia and her friend are not Christ, how ridiculous! If the Canadian press picked up on casey zia’s post, the headline would read…ANTI ABORTION CATHOLIC HEALTHWORKERS LEAK PATIENT DETAILS…What do you think that would do for our pro-life cause? Not a lot I would suspect.pharisees were very legalistic also,and in a hurry to report the Christ
Actually it is. If the friend has no right to the information and no reason, in the course of her job to have the information, the hospital should not havegiven her that information.
Your friend has already breached confidentiality by telling you about it (which is very wrong) and no, she cannot and must not further breach confidentiality by seeking out this woman after accidentally seeing the list. That would be a huge violation of the patient’s privacy no matter what the law says where this took place.
I am 100 percent against abortion. That being said, nothing should be done. The hospital worker has no right to divulge patient details nor involve herself in this woman’s case. If she saw the O.R. list “by accident,” she should have looked away immediately. If she can’t abide by these rules, she needs to work at a hospital that doesn’t perform abortions or at a doctor’s office.
I worded that badly. Even if she found out legitimately, she must still keep it to herself. Telling you about it was very wrong, and it would be very wrong even if she found out legitimately.