Confidentiality Madness

The phone rang at bedtime tonight. Caller ID showed the local library, so I picked up.

“Hello, this is the librarian at [local public library] calling for Beth.”

She’s unavailable. It’s bedtime.

“Well, she has an overdue book.”

OK, which one?

“I can’t tell you. We have a policy.”

Look, she’s a first grader. She [...]

HIPAA Mad Libs II

Another Mad Libs submission, this one from EMT-P/RN/BSN/sister Rescu82. For the backstory on what this is all about, read this post. We arrived at Fryeburg Fair for a reported hangnail. The reporting party said Tyler was doing laundry when she lost her balance, resulting in an explosion that caused an illness.

Casco Rescue moved quickly [...]

HIPAA Mad Libs

Happy over at HMHQ penned a ‘HIPAA Friendly Post’ recently. He commented that if he removed anything potentially identifiable (instead of changing it), his resulting posts would look like Mad Libs.

I love Mad Libs. Read his post, then come back. I sent the resulting blanks to a few friends, and here are the results. [...]