Over 20 Hospital Employees Punished for Snooping on OctoMom

octomomrecords.png Did no one learn from the mess at UCLA's Medical Center over Farrah Fawcett and other celebrities? 23 people have been caught taking a peek at OctoMom Nadya Suleman's medical records without permission. "Despite the notoriety of this case, to us this person is a patient who deserves the privacy that all our patients get," a spokesman for the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center. Health care privacy laws disallow access to records unless you have a medical purpose. Of the employees caught peeking, fifteen were fired.

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