Is it really confidential?
By 911Ricki
@911Ricki (13588)
Canada
April 25, 2013 3:18pm CST
Now my doctors office is in an old school, you can hear everything said in the little rooms.
My doctor has 3 exam rooms, and another doctor across the hall has 3 then a few doctors on the other side of the building.
When I was sitting in the room, I could hear both doctors talking tot he patients. Now being such a small town, you know everything and anyone.
The lady in the next room over should not be out in general public, she's just plain nuts upstairs. She kept saying she's going to do this or that, it was more a therapy session going on meanwhile myself and the guy in the room beside me listened.
After he left the room, he called the mental hospital in a few towns over. Of course I heard the entire conversation, I know this lady and she comes into my work all the time, I honestly don't feel safe with her being around, she is just that loose upstairs, she was saying how her kids are getting to her, and she's going to snap, she;s going to kill herself and others, she's thought of this or that.
He kept saying she's really loosing it, and needs to be locked up. In my opinion he was very unprofessional talking to the other dotor on the phone.
Now mind you I don't care what is over heard for me seeing as mine is my poop, my low iron, or my useless baby making parts the least someone in town will say is, she's constipated, has hemaroids, or she wants these useless paarts removed. But if I went for something else, I would a little iffy about even opening my mouth in case someone heard me.
I remember a number of years ago a couple in the next room over was HIV positive after cheating on her husband, and I heard it all (and new them).
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10 responses
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
25 Apr 13
Hij Ricki those doctors are very unprofessional as all patients shlld have the same confidentiality .I would not want any of my health details overheard as they are my business not other patients. If they cannot do anything else surely they can sound proof the rooms so others cannot hear all that that is none of their business.
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@dagami (1158)
• Rome, Italy
25 Apr 13
this is not a good medical practice. the doctors there should do something to make their rooms sound proof. i wouldn't want anyone hearing everything that i tell my doctor. i would feel deeply embarassed if i see lots of people outside my doc's room when i come out. the patients are protected by law on these matters.
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@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
25 Apr 13
Oh dear, to much information for this young thing.Take care there.
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@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
25 Apr 13
my god that the f@#% I thought this part was g rated guess I need to leave and never come back I sure don't talk about the thing I have hanging between my legs here some things best not talked about
@dionysianspirit (161)
• Canada
25 Apr 13
Yeah I too, am at loss for words. I have been exposed to more talk about poop, hemorrhoids, HIV, hysterectomies and medical malpractice in the last hour here then previously in my entire life.
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
25 Apr 13
hey dionysiansprit welcome to my hell how this is to be what it is no clue but hey I don't care make money and will have to get good a drunk to forget it all
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
25 Apr 13
well go for it as i just moved a few days ago I am waiting for them to come hook up cable to watch tv but for now it will be this rare form of hell for now
@dionysianspirit (161)
• Canada
25 Apr 13
This really is horrible and I don't even know where to begin.
Is this a licensed practice? Because there is clearly no confidentiality or professionalism going on. I would feel very uncomfortable going into an old school that is dilapidated and has no sound proof enclosures for consultations.
Have you looked at going somewhere else? I still am struggling to believe this kind of shoddy practice is legal or even exists but I take your word on that.
I would start communicating by writing your feelings down on a portable whiteboard and quickly erasing them after the doctor reads it because clearly, there is no privacy involved here.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
25 Apr 13
Don't you all have HIPPA laws there? I mean, this is beyond anything approaching medical professionalism. Don't have a doctor's office where every mosey patient within ear shot is overhearing who has what and talking about it online! Is that what free health care amounts to? I go to three different doctors and I have never witnessed a private conversation between a doctor and another patient when I am in an exam room. Granted, the doctors here have offices in real medical complexes and not in old dilapidated buildings. I live in a small town, but all the doctors are in professional buildings or in the hospital. The second and third floor of our hospital are all doctors offices, conference rooms, patient education and therapy offices. The bottom floor is the hospital floor.
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@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
25 Apr 13
Most offices around here are like this, yes they are legal, and all practicing doctors (many who come from the US). We don't have updated buildings around here, unless you go to the city (which is at least 2 hours away), no doctor will take you on if you already have a doctor. This building has been around for years, my Dad went to school in it, they did redo it, but the exam rooms you can hear everything most around here are like that including the hospital.
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@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
26 Apr 13
Some of these buildings inlcuding the hospital are 100 years old. They don't get the funding to replace anything, once these buildings are deemed unsafe they will simple close the doors and walk away leaving the patients to find something else. Those in the city get the luxury of fancy buildings, and which comes with more funding. The furniture in this building is dated before I was born, I remember sitting in it as kids. If you go to Toronto or even north you will get fancy new buildings, and different levels, you come this way you get nothing we are just happy to have doctors, which are slowly vanishing. After I believe it's either 10pm or 12am, we don't have a running hospital you have to go elsewhere. So when this idiots move up here from the city, and complain they will shut the doors. I believe within a few years the local hospital will close it doors. I know many who have just moved here from the city whine and complain, and in the end they will force us to go somewhere else, so in an actual emergency you have to drive 30 minutes to a hospital or more depending.
@spicysweetie21 (2573)
• United States
27 Apr 13
This is extremely unprofessional and I really believe that these people could sue the doctors offices for you being able to hear them. There is no way that I would go back to a doctor like that, I appreciate my medical privacy and do not want strangers being able to hear intimate details of my life especially since most of my doctors visits include a physical exam, which is uncomfortable enough, without knowing that there is some random person that could hear any discussion that goes on after between my doctor and me. I would think that here in the U.S, this would be illegal and just asking for a lawsuit.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
27 Apr 13
I think that they should consider the privacy of the patients when they design the rooms in the clinic. It is a serious problem that the patients can hear the conservation in the other rooms. In town where I lived before the clinic had double doors and there was a small room between the doors so that it was impossible to hear anything that happened inside the room. I am sure that the extra door and the small room between the doors were made as a protection of the privacy and I was never worried about my privacy. I had a depression at that time I would have bothered me a lot if the other patients had been able to hear the things that we talked about.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
25 Apr 13
Is this some kind of backwoodsy area? It just doesn't sound professional at all. Maybe if they don't make any money they can't afford better offices either. Free healthcare probably has its drawbacks as to where doctors practice.
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
26 Apr 13
I think you have the free health care wrong, it's not free at all. We actually pay for it, it comes out of our taxes (which is partially why we pay more into our taxes each year for it). So these doctors make a pretty penny, those in the city get more funding, the bigger popular the more they get. The doctors don't pay it out of their pockets to update the building, the province does, the province give the bigger cities all the funding to update a 5 year old building while those of us in small town suffer and eventually loose it all. So they have on every block these buildings that have multiple levels, different specialists. Here we have 100 year old buildings, we dont get the funding the city gets. The more they build up here and the idiots move from the city they are kicking it down, and making it worse. I think personally in a few years the local hospital will close it's doors, the idiots come from the city and complain. A lady my sister works with complained because she had to go to the city for a specialist because we don't have them here even xrays they shut down 3 of our clinics, now we have to go 45 minutes to the local clinic same with blood work and wait weeks. Our emergency room closes it'ss door I believe 10pm or 12am (cant remember), otherwise you go to the next closest hospital 30 - 45 minutes away.
All my specialists I have to go 45 - 2 hours drive one way to see them. Most move up here from the city, complain so they take the funding away from us, most doctors wont come here because they get more patients in the city means more money (each new patient they get they get more money, whereas they get less if they see the same patient over and over again).