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WyldHrt -> RE: Arizona is at it again (2/15/2011 11:55:11 PM)
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When police officers start performing triple bypass surgery, deal with the illnesses that plague mankind and show good bedside manner.......THEN......you can require medical people (Doctors, Nurses, Nurse-Practiioners, etc) to do the police's job. Ummm... the barn door has long since closed on that one. It's called 'duty to report'. Don't believe me? Show up at an ER with a gunshot wound and see how fast you are talking to a nice police officer about how it happened, like it or not. Show up looking like a victim of domestic violence (esp if you are an ER frequent flyer), and you are likely to be talking with the same nice officer unless you have a really good story. Show up with a minor who shows signs of possible abuse or neglect, and see how fast you are explaining things to the nice people from CPS. These are just some examples of things physicians are already required to report to the proper authorities. Do you think such incidents should not be reported because it means that health care professionals are doing the police's job?
That said, the actual reporting in this instance would not likely be done by doctors or nurses, but by administrative personnel (you know, that nice clerk holding the 5 pages of forms on a clipboard and asking for your medical insurance while you are bleeding through your bandage and/ or puking?)
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It is not the medical community's job to uphold the laws, its law enforcement. You would think the Republicans in that state would get the basic idea of what 'law enforcement' does right? They.....E-N-F-O-R-C-E the laws of the state.
Enforcement is not what is being discussed, but rather duty to report.
I will ignore the rest of your post, as right wing/ left wing ranting bores me. As I am neither a republican nor a democrat, it also does not apply.
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I see many problems with this law, affecting not only the individual, but potentially the community at large.
The community angle does bother me, but how much does it help the community when the person who shows up for treatment of a highly communicable disease (some of which have a 'duty to report' to the CDC) is either using forged documents procured by identity theft or has no ID and is lying? They will likely not answer questions about contact with others honestly and there is no way to track them. Even worse, in the case of false ID, the required report will be on someone likely not even in the same state that does not have the disease.
ETA and ~FR~
I saw nothing mentioned in the OP about refusal of care in emergency situations or letting someone sit and bleed to death because their citizenship has not been verified. Don't be silly.
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