Confidential Care
The president should reconsider his policy regarding the sharing of confidential patient information without the express consent of the patient (“White House Issues Rules on Patient Privacy,” Aug. 10). Allowing health-care companies to do so would be an outrageous violation of the most basic tenets of doctor-patient confidentiality.
How can a patient trust a doctor who will then provide his or her most intimate secrets to faceless corporations whose interests are so often not those of the patient?
Michael and Denise Okuda
Sherman Oaks
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