Activists don't need the personal information of people they disagree with. Terrorists do, charge them accordingly.
Terrorist-a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aim
Hmmm.... that DOES sound a bit familiar...
Activists don’t need the personal information of people they disagree with.
Speak for yourself. If you believe that intelligence work is beneath you, the other side has already won.
That is not what they're saying. They are saying that there's only one reason anyone would need the name and address of trans children and that is to terrorize them. Even if they say they have a different reason (history shows that they don't) the one only effect that they could and would have is terror.
10 years seems pretty low for this tbh
Agreed. Handing over personal info is not unlike handing the wrong person a loaded gun.
True, doctors should be held to a higher standard
If Goebbels Junior here got the punishment he deserves, he'd probably become a conservative martyr and rallying point. Which I think would be useful for identifying others in need of re-education.
What a clusterfuck of a HIPAA violation.
HIPAA seems to be one of the rare laws that actually results in significant damages. Will be interesting to see the size of the fine on this.
Likely the hospital gets hit as well for allowing him access to medical records on patients he had nothing to do with. Shouldn't have been possible in the first place.
This guy's career is over. I'm sure he'll do okay financially by selling ivermectin to bigoted dimwits, but I doubt he will be practicing real medicine ever again.
Shouldn’t have been possible in the first place.
I have yet to see a EHR that has access restrictions that would prevent this. Instead it's just logged and if irregular enough you get to have a hostile conversation that could lead to this.
Edit:
Haim, a Dallas surgeon, previously had done some work at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment against Haim alleges that in 2023, he asked to reactivate his login there to access information on pediatric patients not under his care, including names, attending physicians and treatment codes, then turned over the information to a media contact.
Okay, that's just dumb. Texas Children's Hospital is going to get fucked over this. Not only did he not have admitting privileges, he didn't even fucking remotely work there. This isn't just a HIPPA violation, it's straight up fraud.
Until it's appealed to the Supreme Court 🙃
Don’t jinx us now… there are plenty of idiots in Washington willing to pay idiots to say the things they want said.
I’d wager this asshole would be willing to say a lot.
Actual and deliberate HIPAA violations meant to cause harm, mind you, not what a brainless antivaxxer thinks is a HIPAA violation.
Multiple violations, because he released multiple patients’ info. Off the top of my head, I believe it’s up to $250k and 10 years per violation, but the jail time could be served concurrently instead of consecutively.
Link to the AP article in the tweet
This guy's a real piece of shit.
The irony of the doctor's name not being in the headline....
His name is Dr. Eithan Haim
Yes! SAY HIS NAME!
We need to name and shame these people all the time.
Holy shit, they failed hard.
I'm sure they could have come up with a witty thing with Haim and Harm.
Facing possible jail in Texas isn't exactly a price being paid, is it?
Compromising PII is a hipaa violation, that isn’t taken lightly anywhere. He may not get the full 10 years but he will be slapped for this.
What I mean is even if he was facing the death penalty or 1 billion years in prison, he hasn't paid, has he. The penalty has been added to cart.
Tangent: I have no faith in the American justice system, much less in any red state's "justice" system. He'll get slapped...on the wrist...using some mental gymnastics about whistleblowers or something like that.
I dunno, man. Texas is a human rights violator through their prison system. I imagine it won't be a picnic.
Yes, they grow their own food and make their own clothes, so after a day of hand picking cotton, you get to rest in your cell with no A/C.
Not all of them are self suffcient in this way, but it is not easy time at all.
And we are revoking his license, right?
At least in this administration.
Don't forget to vote in November. I know we all said we aren't voting for Biden but the realities for project 2025 are beginning to set in.
I never said I wouldn't vote for him because it's been obvious since 2021.
Probably a slap on the wrist. You know, cuz trans. :(
Rot in hell, asshole
Just 10 years for violating HIPAA? I would thing it would be longer
He probably won't get anywhere close to 10 years, if he even gets prison time.
Violate a person's rights, slap on the wrist. attempt to overthrow the country, slap on the wrist. Tell the country they shouldn't bomb kids and try to feed them at the same time, added to a terrorist list.
I was thinking the other way around. Pretty long for that type of violation, but I haven't read the article yet. It's making me think it's probably data on quite a few patients which would, or at least should, give them a longer sentence.
The people that are desperately clinging onto the hope that this is any kind of victory needs a reality check.
In the extremely unlikely scenario that he actually gets jail time they'll be high-fiving him all the way in - and you better know that any parole hearing he's going to get (which will probably be sooner rather than later) will be staffed by people who think exactly the same way he does.
Hierarchy is the bedrock of reactionary politics - and it doesn't get any more hierarchical than the (so-called) "justice system."
Republican hospitals are officially data leaks. If you get healthcare in an R state the data is up for public bid.
I wonder how many politicians stuffed shit up their assess, and what the cost of their records are.
Anti-trans doctor
First guess was Florida, second was Texas.
For what possible purpose would he need medical records? It can't be money surely.
For finding and eliminating the “vermin” the orange shit stain keeps screaming about.
So, are all conservatives blood lusting, self centered, self absorbed ass holes?
It's not about the details of care, but the general information on who is transgender and who was providing or was involved in the care.
With the purpose to "cause malicious harm" as the article says. Which means, they will harass and try to scare involved parties into hiding, leaving or stopping to provide care.
This Conservative activist already published the information to discredit the children's hospital, create a scandal on how they are harming children with the goal that the hospital will stop providing care in fear of bad press.
Their goal is to scare every trans person back deep into the closet (or to leave) and to scare all possible care out of existence, even when legal.
The basic motive is HATE. Plain and simple. Hate of that what is different and the need to control the people around them to live by their beliefs and moral standards.
I hope for everything he deserves and more, conservatives are freaks of nature.
What's ironic is that THE BOYS AMZN SPOILER
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The Boys on Amazon predicted this
Fuck oaths, amirite?
Face so punchable. He'll be popular in prison.
Sadly he'll be welcomed and protected by prison Nazis.
do doctors really need to be keeping records in the first place? it's not like they generally care enough about your problems to meaningfully take your history all into account anyway. i thought i might've been trans a few years back and mentioned it to a doctor, i live in a red state, god knows what it says there or how fucked i'll be
