Talk:Open Heart, Book 1 Choices/@comment-37193355-20190331050533/@comment-37484301-20190331184015

I think it is because he was a former employee and a big doctor before he became sick. I don't know how much Open Heart is trying to be realistic and I don't know if you're in the U.S. But at least in California, there is something called HIPAA (health insurance portability and accountability act) where basically if you're not on the Pateint's case (or on the team that is assigned to him) you have no reasonable excuse to pry into their chart. MC is already crossing that line but now that MC knows, he/she is not supposed to discuss it. I guess they can get around it if they used hypotheticals (like patient ABC has these symptoms and I've ruled out these diagnosis so anyone have any insight?) but MC shouldn't come out and say OMG it's Dr.Banerji and he's sick.