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- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!wex
- From: wex@cs.ulowell.edu (Paul M. Wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: No Privacy/Equality at Doctor's Office
- Message-ID: <C1HA4L.Bsy@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Originator: wex@bigmax.ulowell.edu
- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Reply-To: wex@cs.ulowell.edu
- Organization: Univ. of Lowell CS Dept.
- References: <1k3406INNg7t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:26:43 GMT
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- In article <1k3406INNg7t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron) writes:
- |> From: cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron)
- |> Subject: No Privacy/Equality at Doctor's Office
- |> Date: 26 Jan 93 10:32:38 GMT
- |>
- |>
- |> Here's an issue that you may not have considered yet. Why should
- |> your doctor get to know your home address and phone number if
- |> he/she/it won't divulge his/her/its personal information?
- |>
- |> If we do supply the home information, what right does a doctor
- |> have to expect us to divulge our work info. also? Yes, it may
- |> be needed to track down deadbeats that won't pay their bills.
- |> But what if we have insurance coverage or pay cash at each visit?
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- |> Has anyone tried to give only a P.O. box when seeing a doctor for
- |> the first time?
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- Yes, nobody batted an eye, no complaints when I told them my phone
- is unlisted, either.
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- (When I lived in the real boonies, my address was RR4 , zipcode)
- (RR= Rural Route; formerly RFD (rural Free Delivery)).
-
- . . .
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- |> Has anyone out there tried to supply a P.O. box in lieu of an
- |> actual home address when filling out all those forms when first
- |> seeing a given doctor? Your input, please.
-
- see above
-
- |> I've heard of a dual-pricing scam being run by the medical
- |> profession. Ever notice that when you go into the office of some
- |> specialist for something that it's hard to get any sort of fee
- |> information without being asked about whether the bill is going
- |> to be paid by you by an insurance company? Hmmm....
-
- You get the same thing at the auto body shop
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-
- |> As always, your non-flaming feedback is most welcome.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Aw, you take all the fun out of it...
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- --
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- ...Wex
-