Your doctors have notes and documents about your allergies, injuries, medications, and identity. When they go to give you medication they need to give this private information to a stranger for this medication. This could lead to someone stealing your information or causing identity theft. In the story “How Private Is Your Private Life?.” by Andrea Rock her main point is to go through her daily routine and take note of every time her privacy is exposed or spread. And it happens at almost every destination. Her one stop was for her doctor’s appointment in that moment she had to give private information to a doctor that will “keep it safe” but in the story she explains “ I don’t have the legal right to see them myself.” meaning you can not even see what is going out to places that you do not even know …show more content…
It is vital that both patients and healthcare workers have confidence in the confidentiality and integrity of the information and data, and the security of the transmission