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In reply to the discussion: White House says we won't be seeing Melania for a while- [View all]Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)84. The HIPAA cops understand there will be breaches like this.
No system is perfect. You just need to take reasonable precautions to protect the information and only relay the minimum information necessary to get the job done.
But, yeah, like you said, calling the press about so-and-so's hospitalization is pretty clearly out-of-bounds.
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or, that recent kidney thing was really some cosmetic procedure that went wrong
flibbitygiblets
Jun 2018
#10
This is getting into Martha Mitchell territory. Maybe Melania was about to spill the beans...
brush
Jun 2018
#28
I think your excuse is the most likely. Who in their right mind could put up w/ ...
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2018
#48
"I could beat the shit out of Melania and pardon myself and I wouldn't lose voters"
dalton99a
Jun 2018
#58
Imagine what the news media would have said if Michelle Obama had disappeared for a couple of months
workinclasszero
Jun 2018
#73