for starters, it was not created to protect anyone… it was created by a US senator who’s wife had plastic surgery, and was embarrassed when the news media reported on it. no other reason. and it has resulted in millions of cases of family members/friends/and other loved ones being unable to assist or support their loved ones in their time of need.

as an example, my grandfather has cancer. he is very old, and has become a bit simple minded and hard of hearing over the years. he does not know what to do to take care of himself, and for the first time in my life, i have seen this wonderful superhero of mine become very VERY scared. but i can’t just go in and help him, or call up his doctors and discuss the best options for treatment… because of HIPPA. instead, grandpa has to fill out mounds of paperwork that HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND before i can assist him in this. and i need to do that. i mean, when this whole thing started, it was several weeks before i could speak with the doctors about his options, only to find out they had been pressuring him into getting a Veri-Chip implant to track him “in case something ever happened”. had he not finally gotten through that paperwork to allow me to assist him, he may have done it.

i would never let anyone implant a tracking device into my gramps. and the “protection” provided by HIPPA almost made it happen. mine is not a rare story.

Kurt was the patient, and only he has a right to decide what’s in his best interest. He wanted to be recorded. The EMT lashed out in anger — and went after Ian’s camera, who he hadn’t even been speaking with.

Then, people like you come up with B.S. excuses. If anyone else lashes out in anger and attacks someone or their property, they’re thrown in jail, but if it’s a government employee, there’s an army of bootlickers like yourself who will move heaven and earth to excuse even the most outrageous behavior. Tazering a kid, disabled person in a wheelchair, or immobile injured person? “Why, it’s by the book.” Throwing elderly people in a cage for buying orchids without begging a bureaucrats permission? “Gotta enforce the law.” Busting into innocent people’s apartments, swat style, shooting their dogs and sometimes them? “An honest mistake. The investigation found no wrongdoing.”

Yeah, there’s no way that this guy got pissed about being filmed in public (filming which people absolutely have a right to do), and snatched an innocent bystander’s camera — no, he was acting in the “best interests” of the patient. Why, God forbid, if he hadn’t angrily lashed out and snatched Ian’s camera (while ignoring Sam’s), the patient might have been recorded, as he had specifically requested. What an angel that EMT was, only thinking about others.

The degree of delusion is sickening.

November 18, 2009 @ 10:32 pm

“While I would advocte sensless violence KooK I would probably enjoy squaring of with you. The EMT’s interpertation of HIPPA was wrong….unless the patient requested his privacy it, which it seems he didnt. Until we meet on the street then”

Am I the only person on here who is wondering how close this comes to actually being a legitimate threat? Should I be concerned from my safety from this “END GAME” guy? Does anybody know him? The obvious desire for violence on “enough’s” part seems to also indicate a paranoid/psychotic personality structure such as one expects to see on Viet Nam vets suffering from undiagnosed, & thus, untreated PTSD…These are the kinds of wingnuts one frequently reads about in the paper, shooting up a few folks somewhere, then suiciding out…Sad…

The key HIPAA regulations that affect EMS providers such as those videotaped that day are the “Privacy Rule” which became effective in April of 2003. Certain information is referred to as “protected health information” or “PHI”. PHI can be a wide range of things such as the individuals past medical history, information on current medications they are taking, or even social security numbers. The goal of the Privacy Rule is to keep all PHI confidential and safe from wrongful use and disclosure. As EMT’s began to treat the hurt man, his responses to their questions were PHI. Instead it appears as though this videotaping was an attempt for his responses to become documented testimony for alleged wrongdoing from Eli and the robed man.

With numerous methods to distribute media today including facebook, twitter, youtube, and even this website, hundreds of people have access to video like the one recorded that day. Who is to say that someone won’t act maliciously with recorded information?

The key here is I believe the EMT acted in the best interests of the patient. That is their job. That is their professionalism some speak didn’t occur. Was a camera taken? It sure was, but not without warning. What occured that day was between the person hurt and those trying to take care of him. I think those that continue to bantar about this event have lost sight on their goals.

Let those that are employed to truly serve the public go free. I lost interest in this topic a long time ago. Let’s move on……

sure, as long as it goes both ways, you interpertation should be. “Statists shall not talk shit on the internet, but for us its OK”. Double Standard using MFr

“Until we meet on the street, then.” and “I would probably enjoy squaring of with you.”

Educated discourse.