Your Doctor Knows You're Killing Yourself. The Data Brokers Told Her

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3. Disgusting.

From a former nurse.

I love where they say it is all about doctor-patient confidentiality so you should not worry but in the next sentence say the info is available to doctors and the hospitals. Above it mentions the info going to nurses as well. Of course it would all be available to the people who work in the offices too who have to arrange and key in the info. You KNOW your damned Dr. isn't going to be taking the time from his very fast, expensive in and out visits with his other patients to call you and talk about how many trips to McD's you made last month. Oh WAIT, it is the INSURANCE company that calls to discuss your daily habits. Hmmm, more Doctor-patient confidentiality.

Still, once they HAVE all your info you can opt out.

AND the only creepy part about this is having people know this info but not talk to you about it personally, ya know like a friend who happens to be the guy who tells you if you don't stop drinking pop your rates may go up. Nothing creepy about it at all as long as someone is on the other end of the phone talking to you about it.

This information and this article are disgusting. Makes me glad to have entered what is considered old age. Makes me very glad. The first time someone in a suit looks down at me while I am in a hospital bed and tells me I ate too many fatty foods and that is why I am there and why we have to discuss my next insurance policy I will punch them in their smug, freshly scrubbed, cerubic looking face.