by zev 16 Replies latest jw friends
PS to zev on my last comments:
It is standard procedure for hospitals and physicians to have their employees sign a contract agreeing to maintain the confidentiality of patient information. The contract usually states that the employee understands the consequences of breaching confidentiality will be immediate termination of their employment. There probably would have been, in your case, "zero tolerance" by the doctor for whom she worked.
Love, Scully
Howdy,
Now Mary faced an additional question: To whom should she speak, and how could she do so discreetly? She could go directly to the elders, but she decided to go first privately to the sister. This was a loving approach. Mary reasoned that this one under some suspicion might welcome the opportunity to clarify matters or, if guilty, confirm the suspicion. If the sister had already spoken to the elders about the matter, likely she would say so, and Mary would not need to pursue matters further.1. Mary was transcribing private medical documents & ran across this information.
2. Mary had no right to approach this patient even to discuss this with her. It was private information.
This was not a loving thing to do - it was invading this woman's privacy, and I would assume unethical and illegal.
This policy is just wrong in every way. The article is totally unbalanced - just smoothly worded to get jw's to break the law to report each other.
And it's a good point to remember - if the jw get sued, fired, etc., there's a good chance they'll be df'd too - because they're guilty of breaking Ceasar's law.....and did so deliberately.
What a joke on them........
Thanks, Scully, for all the good input on this information.
waiting
Scully
At that time I was busy getting well and back to my family. This seemed so little as to compared what I had just undergone. Also it was about 25 years ago and therefore history.
But not history of its own. Me being still a JW my JW bank manager did leak my financial matters to my mother, information that I actually would have kept for myself. But I was too young then to take any action.
Today I am better off; now I can choose my friends.
zev:
monday, i had a test done in the lab, and they had to up date my profile at the hospital. for the first time, i answered, religous preference as...NONE!!!
and HoChiMin:
I also answered "none" for the first time about religious affiliation at a hospital. WOW! that felt good.
I've addressed the issue of patient profiles before. What you both did is ABSOLUTELY the BEST way to ensure that some JW that you may not even know who works in the back room at the hospital's medical records department does not do a computer search using patients' JW religious affiliation as the search criteria.
They are not supposed to do things like this at all; but some zealous self-righteous theocratic war strategist could very well use their position in a hospital to find JW patients and check their records for blood transfusions, abortions, STDs, drug or alcohol related problems, and so on. Even now that voluntary sterilization (vasectomy and tubal ligation) have fallen out of favor in the view of the WTS, this is another issue of possible concern.
The other thing that can happen, which I learned when my youngest child was born, was that Pastoral Services will know when a person of their faith has been admitted to hospital. If you have "JW" on your records, you might receive a visit from some JW you don't even know, usually an elder, who is making "pastoral calls".
Everyone has the RIGHT to protect the confidentiality of their medical records. If you are admitted to hospital and are asked your religious affiliation, say NONE!! If you have been a patient at a hospital in the past, UPDATE your religious affiliation the next time you are admitted.
There are valid reasons for people to state their religious affiliation, and that's why hospitals will ask for the information. It helps nurses recognize when special dietary needs may be an issue (for example with Jewish or Muslim patients) and also helps the staff deal in a sensitive way regarding any cultural practices associated with hospital stays. But when JWs abuse this privilege and turn it into a way to spy on people's private and confidential medical records, we need to do everything possible to protect ourselves from their unscrupulous behaviour.
Personally, I have advised my supervisors that I prefer not to nurse any JW patients or even look at their charts. I am occasionally recognized by JW patients and the Witnesses in this area are quite well networked. Just suppose that Jane JW has a baby that's sick. She tells someone some obscure information in confidence, and then forgets about it, she also mentions "you remember Sister Scully, who left The Truth™? Well SHE was there." Suppose the person she tells (in confidence) then tells others. The rumor gets back to Jane JW eventually, after she's forgotten that she divulged the information in the first place. Jane JW is not going to blame her " brother or sister in The Truth™" for breaching her confidence, someone's going to say "Hey didn't you say that Sister Scully was there?" and she's going to blame Scully RN, the apostate, inactive, anti JW/anti WTS, person who left Jehovah. That's just human nature, to blame someone who is your 'opposite'. I have no intention of losing my job or my career because of a JW. None whatsoever! The best solution, for me, is to not go near them with a bargepole!
Love, Scully
I noticed something VERY interesting about the article - at no time did the WTS say what to do. Everything was "Mary" thought this and "Mary" decided that...
It was all a narrative of what "Mary" did.
Is Mary part of the Faithful and Discreet Slave? Is Mary on the GB? Is Mary "God's Visible Organization on Earth?"
No.
Sneaky SOBs
"As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible" - The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126
Believe in yourself, not mythology.
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thanks so much scully for your valuable input.
elsewhere, thats what i call them. sneaky.
jw's are among the seakiest people i personally know.
they would break their own rules/laws for what they believe is theocratic war strategy.
Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America
U.A.D.N.A.--Rhode Island
As promised, I found my essay on this topic and, after much fiddling with forum code to get everything formatted, have posted it here:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=26050&site=3
Love, Scully
