Useful Links for Understanding Health Care Reform

At Slate,guide of sources to help those of you who’ve got the gumption (and time) begin to navigate the overwhelming amount of information and misinformation about health care reform.
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Sexual Harassment by Doctors, and Signs of Growing Acceptance for HIPAA Privacy Laws

Here's an anonymous post from a new nurse graduate looking for advice about how to handle sexual harassment by a doctor. How would you advise her? And this post is a cautionary tale for all clinicians who've ever been tempted by curiosity about a patient: it describes just how easy it is for hospital information systems to detect when someone has violated HIPAA (short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy laws by accessing a patient's record when they shouldn't.

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