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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Fuckin' world.
Hospital visitation is one of those things that just boils my blood...i'm glad Grace was able to get it worked out, but the system has no excuse for imposing that kind of delay.
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Believe me, it boils mine as well. Working in a pharmacy, I see this kind of thing all the time. It's HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) which, ignoring the name, is more effectively a set of laws that makes personal privacy job #1, and the cost for screwing up is monsterous. If they let her see her, or make decisions, and she wasn't "allowed" to, according to the law, the hospital could be held for breaking confidential patient proprietary information privacy laws, which, thanks to HIPAA, is BIG. I mean, lawsuits up the ass and out the other side. So, unfortunately, they DO have an excuse... your rights to privacy- which, in this case, caused a problem because of the country's insanely short-sighted views on husband/wife permissions vs. wife/wife and husband/husband. This issue, specifically, pisses me off no end.
I don't want to derail anything, and I REALLY don't want anyone turning this into a discussion on it, but if there's a "perfect example" of why disallowing same-sex "civil unions" (or equivalent) is a bad idea...
this is it.
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Originally Posted by maleficent
You are surrounded by people who love you and want nothing more than for you to be well, and want to take care of you. You took care of them no questions asked... Let them returnthe favor.
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You're good poeple, Gilda. They're just doing what comes naturally, caring for a loved one. If it were me in Sissy's position, I don't think I would have been ok with staying in class either.
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Originally Posted by maleficent
the family you make is much more important that the family you are born into.
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Great words from mal here, wouldn't have said it any better myself.
