Anyone else getting tired of signing those release of info forms whenever

[ScreamingMeemie]

you do anything remotely medical? I don't need another three sheets of ditto paper. Can't we just eliminate the paper waste somehow? And how come I always feel as if I am signing my life away?

[jiacinto]

1. Are you talking about the HIPAA forms?

All doctors offices require patients to sign them. It's the new law.

[travisleit01]

2. At Walgreen's Pharamacies...

There is a waiver that you have to sign saying you acknowledge the privacy act. However, you sign on a sheet of paper with 50 other signatures, so you can look and see which drug addicts came before you! pretty ironic that they keep a list of people who have signed a PRIVACY form out in the open :)

[oneighty]

4. Picked up some

meds for my wife. wanted me to "Touch screen a computer"

I said hell no I am not doing that! I did sign a paper form. My name only.

How do we know what is in the computer? You cannot see any thing.

PS. I am starting to get a lot of buy medicines E Mails. They gotta be selling

private information.

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And not only that. Remember when "Do not give out your social security number"

Remember that?

Grumble Grumble.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Me too! Come to think of it. And I've never even been to one of those

sites. I would have never thought of that, it being private info and all...snort. ;-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. and pharmacies, and dentists...and I am dang sick and tired of it, and

wish we could just file a freaking form somewhere. Grrrr.

[JewelDigger]

6. Yup, I'm tired of it too

AND, if you don't sign....the physician won't see you! WHAT IS THAT ANYWAY? I hate feeling like I need a lawyer around to check what I'm signing before I bring my child in to be treated a sore throat!

However, that's not nearly as interesting as when your child goes to Girl Scouts (I will presume that the Boy Scouts are similar)...I actually had to sign a form that said that I 'understood' that my child could some day sue me for 'signing her rights away' to sue the Girl Scouts in case she got hurt through some negligence of the GS while she was horseback riding! If I didn't sign, she didn't ride. (Btw, I was a chaperone (sp?) on that particular 3-day trip which required signing the form. That was the LAMEST, god-awfulest, BORING, meek, mild, STUPID, snitted-up, three days EVER!!! The 'horse-back riding' consisted of daily 45-min. 'rides' of the riders actually having to wear helmuts and the horses s-l-o-w-l-y walking head-to-butt on a very well-worn established trail....YEAAHH HAH- WOOPEE!!! 'Junior' didn't (couldn't) get hurt, the Girl Scouts wouldn't get sued; nor did the children learn anything or experience any fun, excitement, or challenge.

on edit: sorry I got away from the topic-at-hand with my lil story...