What Your Email Metadata Told the NSA About You (The AtlanticWire)

[KoKo]

19. Our Medical Records are now sold by Hospitals. They say it's to give you "Support"

but us olders know different. I was on a "Cancer Survivor List" for years after a Colectomy for a Cancerous Colon Lesion. It was because I did my research and took my "good chance" statistics from Mayo Clinic and other Leading Colin Cancer Research Sites that I refused the "Experimental Chemo" that some drug company was pushing on me Post Surgery. It would have involved major debilitation with some neck IV that I would have to wear for 3 to 6 months. Yet the stats from major Sites with Research said I was "Low Risk," and this was only if I was a "patient who did not want one cell of cancer available to metasticize in my body...ever." I got that info from extra 4th opinion from Duke Medical School's Top Colon Cancer Oncology Head. It was a scare tactic to get me to use an Experimental Drug and it was only ON MY OWN that I did Indie Research (have Med Background...so had an advantage on knowing where to look for latest data and how to read research reports, though).

Anyway...it's been 15 years....and for the first 10 years I got constant Invitations to "Survivors Celebration Milestone Party" at the Hospital where I had the Surgery. It was a Love Fest with Food, Music and Survivors Stories. (They were Monitoring Me to see how long I'd live since I DID NOT take their Advice). I'm not saying that those who needed that support weren't happy to have their hospital spend money for that Big Event every year and that many didn't feel it worthwhile. But, what the insurance company paid for my operation probably got a Kick Back from my Hospital throwing those "Survivor Parties" all those years...

That was my first taste of how our MEDICAL INFO has been monitored and how it can be used against us for Insurance Denial and for Experimental Reasons and other Meta Modeling used by Third Parties. I was a MARKED PERSON...used because SOMEONE had my DATA!

Edited...for typo's ... & very emotional issue for me...