🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘 on Nostr: One other difference is the delay. For an attorney, case load is not an excuse to ...
One other difference is the delay. For an attorney, case load is not an excuse to delay a client's matter. That's a quick and easy way to get your license suspended.
That doctors can make patients wait 60 to 90 days for an appointment or referral in many cases is absolutely horrendous. I have a hard time seeing why doctors shouldn't get their licenses yanked for it. "Industry standard" or "too many patients" should not be an excuse. If it is, then ipso facto, the law as it is should be found to violate due process and right to life / liberty by prohibiting self care, i.e. the state should not be allowed to rely on a regulatory scheme that delays care when justifying its prescription and lab requirements etc. There is some point at which that dam has to break. Is 90 days too long, 180? A year?
And yes, never trust a doctor with your information. Disclose only as much as necessary to get care. They write everything down and it can be easily acquired and used against you. In a proper case, I can subpoena most medical records, and the subpoena is merely subject to objection / protective order, meaning that the Healthcare provider must produce unless an objection is timely made by the patient or a protective order is sought. Your medical records are about as private as posting shit online as far as I'm concerned.
Conversely, the Attorney-client privilege is nearly as good as gold. Even if objection is not timely made on that ground in discovery, courts always allow a late objection. And it's very rare that a court will allow intrusion into that privilege based on the crime-fraud exception. The opposing party has to have damn solid evidence that the attorney's representation was being used to further a crime or fraud. Mere speculation won't get them there, nor will merely showing that the party had an attorney at or before the time of committing a crime or fraud.
That doctors can make patients wait 60 to 90 days for an appointment or referral in many cases is absolutely horrendous. I have a hard time seeing why doctors shouldn't get their licenses yanked for it. "Industry standard" or "too many patients" should not be an excuse. If it is, then ipso facto, the law as it is should be found to violate due process and right to life / liberty by prohibiting self care, i.e. the state should not be allowed to rely on a regulatory scheme that delays care when justifying its prescription and lab requirements etc. There is some point at which that dam has to break. Is 90 days too long, 180? A year?
And yes, never trust a doctor with your information. Disclose only as much as necessary to get care. They write everything down and it can be easily acquired and used against you. In a proper case, I can subpoena most medical records, and the subpoena is merely subject to objection / protective order, meaning that the Healthcare provider must produce unless an objection is timely made by the patient or a protective order is sought. Your medical records are about as private as posting shit online as far as I'm concerned.
Conversely, the Attorney-client privilege is nearly as good as gold. Even if objection is not timely made on that ground in discovery, courts always allow a late objection. And it's very rare that a court will allow intrusion into that privilege based on the crime-fraud exception. The opposing party has to have damn solid evidence that the attorney's representation was being used to further a crime or fraud. Mere speculation won't get them there, nor will merely showing that the party had an attorney at or before the time of committing a crime or fraud.