“HIPAA has made it far too difficult to surface potentially dangerous people. ... HIPAA clearly went too far. The question is, if you have information and you have a reason to believe this person is dangerous, should there be a way to surface that?”
—Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on ABCnews.com
“Her family refused (to let the patient go home), and they told me so. Do I call security and escort them out? I was more concerned with them giving me a bad patient-satisfaction survey score than her going home and having a stroke,” which was considered highly unlikely.
—An emergency room doctor in
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