Two hospital workers were fired after posting photos of patients taken with their cell phone cameras in an ER on MySpace.. They were caught after an anonymous call to a University of New Mexico hospital administrator, who told the press that the patients' faces and "personal identifying features" were blocked and the photos were put up on a site with only private access to the employees' friends. The pictures were taken while the patients were receiving treatment
No charges have yet been filed against the employees.
3 comments:
I should think they would be fired too. That's an appalling breach of privacy, especially as it is in a hospital, where people are so vulnerable. Even if all identifying traits were blurred out, it doesn't change that someone was looking at someone in a vulnerable state.
Absolutely shocking.
It is shocking - they were fired (I wrote canned and maybe should have stayed away from slang- will change that :)
Canned, fired, sacked, it's all good! :)
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