I have a feeling about how this will end
they put me in a rubber room with rats
Whoa, they gave you therapy animals? Lookit this guy
Unironically, anything you tell a doctor can be used against you in court. I have been on two civil juries and in both cases the defense attorneys basically just read a bunch of tangentially related embarrassing medical records for seemingly no reason besides embarrassing the person their client injured.
What about doctor-patient privilege, does that not exist anymore?
Admittedly, it wouldn’t apply in this case since the person posted it to Twitter, but I mean in general.
Yes not many people realize that medical records can be subpoenad.
From Wikpedia:
Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept […] that protects communications between a patient and their doctor from being used against the patient in court.
What am I missing here? Clearly both cannot be true at the same time.
EDIT: nevermind, I found the answer further down on the page:
In the United States, the Federal Rules of Evidence do not recognize doctor–patient privilege.
At the state level, the extent of the privilege varies depending on the law of the applicable jurisdiction. For example, in Texas there is only a limited physician–patient privilege in criminal proceedings, and the privilege is limited in civil cases as well.
US fed doesn’t recognize basic ethics laws, how unsurprising
A boring dystopia
But the types of cases are different. Civil cases are state cases and handle harm, murder, etc. Federal cases are often not about these types of things at all and are about businesses that operate in multiple states (because they may operate differently according to the state constitutions)
Edit: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/types-cases
It says that they preside over Constitutional cases
I did something similar to this at work. I took a screen shot of a coworker while he was speaking and then made it my background. I sized it so that if I stayed centered, I was blocking him, and it looked like I was in his living room.
At the next team meeting, it was great to see the wave of smiles as people noticed it. Especially his😁.
A little bit of editing and you could delete him from the image. Then you could send it to everyone in the office and troll your coworker. :)
Stable diffusion inpaint him out and it’s even easier
🤣🤣🤣
Somebody’s getting a restraining order…again?
Somebody’s getting a restraining order…again?
Always a relevant one.
The worst thing about this is just how much we normalized using Zoom, a private company who shamelessly admits to using your meetings to train AI, as a way for people to receive therapy. It’s not like the American healthcare system is swimming in money and can easily self-host a meeting platform on servers that they control or anything. No I don’t trust that Zoom obeys HIPAA laws even if they swear up and down they do, because tech companies violate it all the damn time and never get any consequences, so violating it is literally a no-brainer for profit chasing CEOs.
What REALLY weirded me out is that…Skype was doing video calls for years before the pandemic, Skype got picked up by Microsoft, the biggest software house in the world with the power to make Skype non-removable on 90% of the work computers in the word…And they lost to some no name company that sprang up out of nowhere.
It doesn’t surprise me that Google failed, because they’d probably started, advertised, ran, monetized, abandoned and shut down three different and incompatible video conferencing suites so “Let’s just use Google Spew” “Wait I thought it was called Youtube Both Ways” “You mean Teams?” “No that’s a Microsoft thing isn’t it?”
Slack was like “…nah we’re still just IRC for work.”
Skype had become a really horrible program under Microsoft. Aweful buggy app, bad video quality, … Here’s someone else’s testimony, which matches my own experience: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-is-horrible/83ceff2b-3217-4ddd-bfa5-fcec0b390997
Microsoft Teams for business is pretty good as long as the call stays within the company. Go outside of that and you run into loads of problems thanks to Microsoft’s hubris. The problem really is Microsoft.
Zoom and Google meet just work in my experience.
If we haven’t (I might have missed it), a few years from now we’ll get an insider’s story on how Microsoft killed Skype.
There must have been some really fucked up political shenanigans with the “Skype for Business” into “MS Teams” folks that must be at the root of much of Regular Skype™'s enshitification.
Now we just wait for third time to become the charm: MSFT will buy Discord, rebrand it “Teams for XBOX”, then promptly enshittify it because it’s eating into their own B2B marketshare.
It doesn’t surprise me that Google failed
Did it? Isn’t Google meet one of the rare things they were successful with?
I’m just here jealous of people that can get therapy and still eat =/
When therapy turns into psychological warfare.
I literally cannot imagine having a meeting with my camera on.
Why?
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