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Re: michelle-obama in evening dress

Abendkleider — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:47:04 -0000

Nice

Re: Suggested Reading

sue — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:10:22 -0000

Kimi, I don't know how to do web blogs, but this sure looks interesting. Sue SHields

Re: Early voting will help Cory Booker

Spread Love and Fly — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:12:45 -0000

ABC, Anybody But Corey but Rush Holt is our guy.

Re: The Discuss Race Group is open for membership (& discussion)

Okaikor — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:03:29 -0000

The New Jim Crow Study Guide:

http://www.endnewjimcrow.or...

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Blaze Duskdreamer — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:52:27 -0000

With all due respect, where the teaching with us as tools begins and ends should be our decision -- not yours. Ours or our survivors. I read a horror story of a young man with cancer being used as a total teaching tool during his last few days and his parents not being able to keep the teams out so he could die surrounded by his loved one -- not interns that are strangers to him, treating him like an interesting specimen. Let those who aren't bothered by it agree to it as is now done with donating your body to science. Those of us who are modest, or just want to not be surrounded by strangers in our direst health emergencies should not be given only agreeing with it or being refused health care as our only two options. Frankly, science goes too far; we're not allowed to die with dignity any more. So, no, you really don't move me with this argument. I don't volunteer to be a classroom tool. Your interns can learn (and make their mistakes as you admit you do here) on somebody else. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you're that butcher that operated on me 10 years ago and I haven't been right since. It was an emergency operation in a teaching hospital (3 hospitals in my city all teaching so I don't have another option) and they stuck me with a surgeon so young I was calling him Doogie
Howser. I'm really not impressed if he's performing better now. I also don't have any confidence that he is.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Blaze Duskdreamer — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:44:44 -0000

I'm sorry. Just seeing this. I continually run into the doctors won't treat if I don't sign the HIPPA in addition to the treatment consent. If you don't sign both, their attitude is go somewhere else. Since they all do this, there is no somewhere else to go. You either have to gamble with your health or your priv
acy and one of these nightmare invasions of privacy happening to you

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Europe — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:14:02 -0000

today4jun2013 had a doctor appointment they force me to sign a paper, witch initially I sign it with many notes! last week and today, when they give again the same kind of paper and I refuse to sign it, because the paper say the signature is voluntary! but they threaten me that if I don`t sign can`t have the record from my emergency room visit. where you can complaint about this abusive harassment behaviors?

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

carolyn gallaher — Sun, 12 May 2013 01:30:36 -0000

I think this has nothing to do with protecting your privacy, this law was enacted to give the government authorization to be notified if you were a potential organ donor. Before that you have had to give the doctor permission to disclose your medical records.

Re: Principal Kafele shares inspiring thoughts on mission and passion

Principal Kafele — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:02:18 -0000

Thank you for this!

Re: Don’t want to be replaced by video lecturers? Up your game.

Bryan Alexander — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:43:14 -0000

Good observations, Kimi.
I think many of the letter's weaknesses stem from the authors' field. Being philosophers, they're not interested in the hands-on experience of (say) music or engineering.

Re: Free prom dress programs across NJ and US

Vanessa M — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:09:55 -0000

I was able to get a dress from the Cinderella For A Day in Totowa, and it was FREE! They also had free shoes, jewelry, and bags. They even had people who were doing hair and giving make-up tips. Everybody was just so nice and helpful. I highly recommend that people go next year, because the experience was great!

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

@KimiWei — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:46:36 -0000

InterestedMD, I completely agree with you on the teaching side of things. Good doctors are constantly learning. I've personally had good experience with teaching hospitals so 2nd your opinion of their value.

On the issue of my doctor, though, she wasn't offering the option to protect my privacy by billing me directly, without the intervention of the insurance company. She simply didn't understand the HIPAA requirement and got it confused with patient and billing consent. I did sign her patient and billing consent forms – so, I gave her permission to treat me and permission to send whatever necessary to my insurance company so she could get paid. I refused to sign her HIPAA form for three reasons.

First, I never sign those forms, and there's no legal requirement that I do so. The onus is all on the doctor. HIPAA law requires that a doctor have a HIPAA patient privacy policy and that they try to show it to me. I can read it or not and I can sign a form acknowledging receipt of it or not. If I don't sign, the doctor or her staff is able to indicate my refusal on the form and they don't run any risk of having a problem by doing so.

Second, the doctor's form language substantively exceeded HIPAA law. That form asked me to agree with something, but HIPAA law doesn't ask any patient to agree with, or even to understand, the medical provider's privacy policy. And that's all HIPAA addresses in terms of patient obligation, or interaction. Simply put, all HIPAA wants is for a patient to say, "Yes, I saw my doc's HIPAA policy. It was shown to me and I'm going to sign the form that says I saw it."

Third, I was asked to sign acknowledgement of seeing the doctor's HIPAA policy before the policy was shown to me. That's dumb. Interestingly enough, most doctors who have treated me and my kids, do this exactly the same way.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

@KimiWei — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:30:11 -0000

I revisited an aspect of this issue in a post I published today. Your feedback is appreciated, as always ...

Re: How to configure Add Link to Facebook & Create a Facebook App

@KimiWei — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:28:01 -0000

Saad, I took a look at your page but can't see how the interface is working for you.

Re: Free prom dress programs across NJ and US

SallijaneG — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:04:28 -0000

Hi, I know that BUURG—the Bergen County Unitarian Universalist Relief Group—was collecting dresses (I think tuxes, too, but not sure) for students in Little Ferry and Moonachie, which were hit so hard by the storm. Look for them on Facebook for details.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

interestedMD — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:13:56 -0000

Interesting analysis found here: http://worldprivacyforum.or...

HIPPA is not actually designed to protect patient privacy - it just spells out how patient privacy can be violated legally. Specifically, insurers and payment processors are allowed to get your information almost no matter what (in a way, I actually admire the doctor listed above - she's actually offering the patient the option to pay privately and keep the insurance companies out .. HIPPA actually allows her to send that information on no matter what the patient says; in fact, though the doctor may not realize it, if Medicare is involved, she may actually be violating the law by even offering you that option).

I do find it interesting that so many people object to being "used" as "teaching tools". I understand the sentiment (after abuses like tuskegee, who wouldn't understand), but if no one wants younger physicians to learn, what happens when all the experienced doctors die? Having recently completed my own residency training, I owe a lot to the patients who let me "learn" on them, and I save lives every working day (literally) because of those opportunities and experiences. I don't think I abused anyone, though there are definitely individual patients that I made mistakes on, but those mistakes (which luckily didn't kill anyone) have saved several lives since then (since I'm now on my own, with no one looking over my shoulder).

Incidentally, there is an odd fact that so-called teaching hospitals may actually have better outcomes than non-teaching hospitals: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.....

JAMA recently published an article in which higher patient satisfaction was associated with higher mortality see here:http://archinte.jamanetwork...

Re: How to configure Add Link to Facebook & Create a Facebook App

saad — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:48:06 -0000

i followed the same procedure but its not working

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Re: Paterson Board of Ed will investigate secret state charter school approval

Bluson9 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:18:29 -0000

We are all very busy people. But if no one pays attention then the state will do what it wants, not necessarily what our children need. Business run schools may benefit the bottom line of the business. But they won't necessarily benefit the children. A business' primary job is to MAKE MONEY! Public schools' primary job is to educate children. So we need to pay attention to who is being put in charge of educating our children.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Thequell3 — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:36:46 -0000

On Jan 26, 2013, Allergy Associates & Lab Ltd of Chandler
AZ denied me services because I refused to sign away my HIPPA PROTECTED HEALTH
INFORMATION. HIPPA laws were designed to
protect patients’ privacy rights, so why would Allergy Associates coerce
patients into giving them up? How can
they justify refusing critical medical treatment to an asthma sufferer on this
basis when there is no legal or ethical reason why a patient must give up their
protected medical rights? Say NO to
Allergy Associates or any provider and go somewhere more friendly and
respectful of patients’ rights!

Re: Report on voter woes in Bergen County NJ

Slkes — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:19:28 -0000

11/05/12 I too have not received a sample ballot for Englewood NJ. 2 Weeks ago, the news was saying that to take advantage of the usually large voter turn out for the Presidential election, the county, city, ward, put a lot of items on the ballot--so the ballot would be very crowded and possibly confusing. I came here to looking to find a sample ballot, to be prepared.
Your info is interesting and discouraging.
I hope we can find a sample ballot, let alone which polling places are open--or where the new ones are.
Thank You.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

@KimiWei — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:34:27 -0000

I think there is so much confusion about the difference between consent for treatment permission forms and the HIPAA form which merely acknowledges that a patient has been informed of a provider's privacy policy.

While doctors should probably not treat patients who do not consent to be treated – for obvious reasons, there doesn't seem to be any good reason a patient should sign anything acknowledging that notification of the doctor's privacy policies was received. As Ruyzho points out, any privacy policy has gaping holes in it and will exist whether I agree that I know what they are, or don't agree.

But Blaze! Don't you think you owe it to yourself to get treatment for that very serious medical condition you're carrying around in your body? I do, personally, sign consent for treatment forms. I completely understand your concerns about your patient rights being subject to violation but the good news is that most patients are not abused. Let me know how things turn out for you. I am praying for your fast and full recovery.

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Blaze Duskdreamer — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:09:32 -0000

I'm quite willing to sign that part of it but I was told that crossing out what I was not willing to agree to -- my private info being used for research and/or teaching too, my bodily material being used in any way the hospital wanted to -- and writing in I do not agree to this and signing it with the changes I made does not legally null and void those parts. My signature applies to the printed form. I cannot agree to being used this way! A person should not have to be rich enough to pay out of pocket and if they have to pay out of pocket to not forfeit their rights, what's the point of insurance even if they are rich enough?

Re: Must I sign my doctor’s HIPAA policy receipt form?

Blaze Duskdreamer — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:04:54 -0000

Thank you so much for this! Last Thursday I had an appointment for an echocardiogram because I have a leaky heart valve and an aortic aneurysm, quite serious problem and said echocardiogram is rather important. I usually cross out what I disagree with and write in I do not agree to this section and initial it but I was told Thursday that legally speaking my signature on the bottom agrees to what is printed regardless of any alterations that I make. What ended up happening is I would not sign my rights away and they would not give me the echocardiogram without it. I am on the internet in small bursts trying to find my rights and get the medical care I so desperately need without signing my rights away to not be used as a guinea pig or a teaching tool. I came across one horrific story of one couple whose son who died of cancer being used as a total teaching tool for the last four days of his life. This patient abuse needs to end!

Re: Racist Romney & GOP move to block the Latino & Black vote

Aurora Lopez — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:58:29 -0000

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Re: Can 4 year olds be temperate in the presence of a marshmallow?

@KimiWei — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:33:00 -0000

So true, Ian!