Patient privacy? What patient privacy?
Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse and nurse practitioner, told CNN that Jackson suffered from severe insomnia and pleaded for the powerful sedative Diprivan.
“I told him this medication is not safe,” Lee said. “He said, I just want to get some sleep. You dont understand. I just want to be able to be knocked out and go to sleep.
“I told him — and it is so painful that I actually felt it in my whole spirit — If you take this, you might not wake up. ”
via Jacksons public viewing set amid speculation on cause of death – CNN.com.
Is it just me or should this nurse practitioner not be blabbing about a medically-related conversation she had with a patient, even if it’s a former one? I don’t care if the patient is Michael Jackson and he just died under mysterious circumstances, that does not mean it’s okay for her to tell the world that he suffered from insomnia and was begging for medication in the days leading up to his death. Completely tacky.
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Very tacky indeed! But isn’t there a long standing debate whether patient’s privacy extends beyond the grave? I remember my former shrink got into quite a legal hassle because the family of a patient of hers who had committed suicide were demanding her notes on sessions be turned over to them. My therapy came to an end before the case was legally resolved so I never did find out what the outcome was.
As far as I can tell, even after death the patient’s representative has to consent for medical information to be released.
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