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http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20040104/ISSUE01/100013940#
Insurance Companies must weigh the risk of hiring a loose lip JW, the Watchtower had the nerve to have their legal counsel reply to this author with this bogus statement about the problem Dr. Bullock had with is loose lip book-keeper who ran to the elders when she read the patients file after the sister was raped and came down with a STD. The sister who ran to the elders had no desire to approach the sister who was raped, she assumed the sister had sex with seven men and decided her "feet were quick to rush to do bad". Read the whole article, it's gonna make you sick how well the Organization lies, in September 1, 1987 "A Time To Speak-When?" encourages loyal JWs to run to elders if they see anything that might be construed as sin." The Insurance Company who wrote this article had the Society's position that "We don't tell our people to tattle-tale on others".. This makes me mad!
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".... For others, though, the dilemma is not so clear.
"It is definitely not appropriate to release (private information) no matter what the outside religious obligation is," said Sanford M. Bragman, Dallas-based vp, risk management at Tenet Healthcare Corp.
The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, the body that directs church affairs, says there is no policy forcing members to report sinful acts or divulge private information. That choice is up to members, according to Phillip Brumley, general counsel for the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based group.
"They should study the scriptures, and what they do is up to them," said Mr. Brumley. If there is a conflict, he said, a member should "think that through and decide what to do."
A 1987 article in the church's Watchtower magazine, which the church says is its most recent on the subject, advises members to consider the ramifications before taking any oath that would put them in conflict with biblical requirements. Doctors' offices, hospitals and law firms are businesses where privacy problems could arise, the article states. "We cannot ignore Caesar's law or the seriousness of an oath, but Jehovah's law is supreme," it reads.
The article further states that if a "Christian feels, after prayerful consideration, that he is facing a situation where the law of God required him to report what he knew despite the demands of lesser authorities, then that is a responsibility he accepts before Jehovah."
It is an employee's promise, though, that appears to be an employer's only protection against the release of private information on moral grounds.
"Even if you have everybody sign something, it isn't going to stop the behavior" if a zealous employee feels obligated to release information, Ms. Gates noted. "The only thing it can do is keep the employer from being held liable," she said.
Dr. Bullock said he now hires only workers who make such promises, and, when interviewing, wants to know whether there is "anything about you that would cause you to tell on a patient," he noted. If so, the applicant isn't hired. ..."