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Patient’s attorney files claim against SF over Laguna Honda abuse: ‘He’s angry. He wants answers’

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Dissent

Joshua Sabatini reports:

A middle-aged, disabled man who is among a number of patients impacted by the abuse scandal at Laguna Honda Hospital is angry and wants answers, according to his attorney who has filed a legal claim against The City.

“Having those answers is part of the healing process,” said the patient’s attorney, Sara Peters, with the law firm Walkup, Melodia, Kelly and Schoenberger.

Often, these breaches where employees are misusing patient data or accessing it or sharing it improperly wind up on my companion site, DataBreaches.net in the “Insider” category of breaches. But I’m also cross-posting this one to PogoWasRight.org, because it’s the kind of privacy violation that will really traumatize patients and make them less likely to seek help in the future.  Look at what they allege happened to this patient:

They learned that staff had taken a photo of him receiving an enema and shared the photo with other staff via text messages that included “inappropriate and sexualized jokes,” she said.

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