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Medical privacy has come under assault lately, especially when it involves celebrities. Staff members and doctors at UCLA Medical Center faced suspension or termination this month after hospital officials discovered that staffers were snooping into Britney Spears' computerized medical records during her latest hospitalization. It's bad enough when doctors do the snooping, but how would you like big pharmaceutical companies to have access to a list of your medications?
State Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, thinks that would be helpful. Of course he does, since pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy chains have given him more than $15,000. (He denies that contributions have anything to do with his sponsoring the bill. "My idea is to help people get their medications.")See the full content of this document
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An Assault On Privacy
Of course.
Calderon and the head of the Mental Health Association of California see the bill as a way to let p...See the full content of this document
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