Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act: Ask For Your Child's Medical Records? You're A "Potential Abductor": Get To The Back of The Bus, Parent!

dakboy · 2010-02-09T17:48:20+00:00

While we're on the subject, my family physician's office only allows for one contact phone number for a child. Like a lot of redditors, we don't have a landline, my wife & I each have cell phones and that's it.

Result? I call the doctor's office about my son. I leave a message "hi, this is who I am, my son is this kid, my phone number is 111-1111, I'm calling because..." Even though they have my number on record & linked to my son, my wife's is considered the "primary" number so they cannot call me back directly. They get my message, they call my wife. She calls me to tell me the doctor's office called her back, and I need to call them again for more Q&A.

Except they never pick up their phone, they always work off the "leave a message, we'll call you back when we're free" method.

I once spent an entire afternoon getting a prescription straightened out for my son because of this circus.

HIPPA is generally an OK idea, but there are some parts of it that put far too much bullshit in the way of getting things done between patients & doctors.

windynights · 2010-02-09T13:43:52+00:00

Funny isn't it that paranoia is the chief state of mind in the world's supposedly most free country...

cfisi79 · 2010-02-09T16:22:06+00:00

If you want to actually read it.

http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/archives/ulc/ucapa/2006_finalact.htm

Confucius_says · 2010-02-09T16:06:56+00:00

I think this might be bad reporting. I could see these things labeling people at potential abuductors if they weren't the biological parents or court appointed gaurdians. If a stranger attempted to access a small child's medical records, a flag ought to go off somewhere.

The article keeps stating if the parent does things like access grades, medical records, or make flight plans that the parent would get flagged, but I'm thinking the original text didn't say that.

They should have made a link to the bill itself for us to draw our own conclusions rather than feeding us what they think we should think of the bill.

NickAtNight500 · 2010-02-11T01:39:12+00:00

Good article

cryptogirl · 2010-02-09T21:41:08+00:00

The provision in question merely lists requesting one's child's medical records as one of many factors for a court to consider when petitioned to issue an abduction prevention order. In other words, just requesting your child's medical records is hardly likely to convince a judge that you are a "potential abductor." I call hype.

Title	Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act: Ask For Your Child's Medical Records? You're A "Potential Abductor": Get To The Back of The Bus, Parent!
Author	DougDante
Upvotes	50
Comments	22
Date	February 9, 2010 1:32 PM UTC (16 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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