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Under HIPAA privacy rules, may an emergency room doctor discuss a patient’s treatment in front of the patient’s friend?

April 26, 2017discuss doctor emergency friend hipaa patient privacy room rules treatment

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Under HIPAA privacy rules, may an emergency room doctor discuss a patient’s treatment in front of the patient’s friend?

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Yes. Providing that the patient asks that the friend come into the treatment room.