r/mildlyinteresting 6h ago

My patient’s urine was bright green today.

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u/urosrgn 4h ago

I asked permission. He said he didn’t care.

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u/AdventurousPin77 1h ago

… it’s genuinely wild you are claiming to be a doctor. There’s no way this is a real post by a legit health care provider, even med students know you need a HIPPA AF and verbal consent isnt valid, and even then any respected hospital wouldn’t allow this anyways. This is a massive ethical violation. Im going to assume this is fake for my peace of mind because there’s no way anyone above med students level doesnt know basic ethics.

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u/FlameOfIgnis 1h ago

HIPAA* only protects identifiable information, so unless your superpower is looking at someones piss and identifying them there is no rules being broken or bent here

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u/AdventurousPin77 1h ago

HIPAA protects all "Protected Health Information" (PHI), which includes any individually identifiable health data, medical records, and clinical photographs. When it comes to highly specific or sensitive medical images like photos of a patient's bodily secretions, wounds, or surgical sites, federal law and med ethics impose strict boundaries to with patient care with the fundamental right to privacy, this could be easily be taken to a licensing board for at the least a breach or call into question of ethics. HIPPA violation or not its an ethics violation and wrong. You can stomp your feet all you want but it wont change the fact this is fundamentally wrong and ethically questionable at best.

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u/FlameOfIgnis 1h ago

You can stomp your feet all you want but it wont change the fact this is fundamentally wrong and ethically questionable at best.

They asked the patient and was told it's fine, so you are the one stomping their feet here and frankly this is reminiscent of the "is there someone you forgot to ask/consensual consent" meme

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u/AdventurousPin77 1h ago

Lol imagine going to court or in front of an ethics board and saying “ugh but the patient said it was okayy :(((“ anyways good luck with life you’ll need it!