Lavender Sky Health exposed my wife's (life saving & emergency) abortion care

[brisket]

Lavender Sky Health exposed my wife's (life saving emergency) abortion care to me and I don't think they are remotely taking in seriously enough. What if I was a homicidal nutjob of a husband who did not understand what ectopic meant (We have those kind of ppl, they are called politicians here)?

They are playing loose and fast with confidential records in ways that could put women's lives at risk. They just assumed that I had a right to her records, and just assumed I was asking for her records too when I asked for mine.

They claim the person immediately self reported, I didn't notice the breach for days, and they didn't reply to me complaint for 2 more days. If they knew immediately, why didn't they inform my wife or I immediately?

If my new insurance didn't cover zepbound as of next month, I'd probably be looking to move to gray market. I'm done with LSH for sure.

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[stickfigure]

Humans make mistakes. But even I have to take HIPAA training every year and I am not even remotely close to anything involving medicine or patient care - I could just accidentally come across protected information.

The fact that medical professionals who deal with HIPAA protected information all the time could make such mistakes is mind blowing

 

[brisket]

Humans make mistakes. But even I have to take HIPAA training every year and I am not even remotely close to anything involving medicine or patient care - I could just accidentally come across protected information.

The fact that medical professionals who deal with HIPAA protected information all the time could make such mistakes is mind blowing

I can't get over the fact that they knew about it for days, and didn't fess up until I complained. They still have not notified my wife...

Why are they emailing medical records in plaintext in the first place? Even my small down doc was doing secure transfers over a decade ago.

 

[YoYoFat]

How did this happen?

Did you contact them on her behalf? Log in using her sign in info?

 

[brisket]

How did this happen?

Did you contact them on her behalf? Log in using her sign in info?

I did not and would never login to my wife's medical account.

 

[BenevolentMrTang]

As a lawyer who used to work on medical and dental malpractice cases (both plaintiff and defense) and the victim of medical malpractice in the past, I can't say that anything surprises me anymore in the medical world. I've worked on cases where a surgeon left a surgical instrument inside a patient before sewing up the patient, then failed to remove it in a subsequent surgery before finally getting it out on the third try, weeks later, when the patient was in really bad shape. Or an oral surgeon who severed a lingual nerve, leaving this poor young woman with the inability to taste or smell anything for the remainder of her life (maybe another 60 years or so). And sometimes they operate on the wrong limb or remove the wrong organ. People have no idea how many mistakes medical professionals make, but I assure you that it is A LOT OF MISTAKES. And then there are the mistakes that nurses and others make with simple medical records that result in patients getting the wrong medication or 100 times the correct dosage of the right medication, killing or injuring them. So, yes, people are human, and humans are dangerous as hell, often stupid and too tired, too distracted and just plain negligent.

This is a serious breach and should not be taken lightly. Peoples' lives can be seriously impacted over mistakes like this.

 

[mopo89]

As a lawyer who used to work on medical and dental malpractice cases (both plaintiff and defense) and the victim of medical malpractice in the past, I can't say that anything surprises me anymore in the medical world. I've worked on cases where a surgeon left a surgical instrument inside a patient before sewing up the patient, then failed to remove it in a subsequent surgery before finally getting it out on the third try, weeks later, when the patient was in really bad shape. Or an oral surgeon who severed a lingual nerve, leaving this poor young woman with the inability to taste or smell anything for the remainder of her life (maybe another 60 years or so). And sometimes they operate on the wrong limb or remove the wrong organ. People have no idea how many mistakes medical professionals make, but I assure you that it is A LOT OF MISTAKES. And then there are the mistakes that nurses and others make with simple medical records that result in patients getting the wrong medication or 100 times the correct dosage of the right medication, killing or injuring them. So, yes, people are human, and humans are dangerous as hell, often stupid and too tired, too distracted and just plain negligent.

This is a serious breach and should not be taken lightly. Peoples' lives can be seriously impacted over mistakes like this.

this makes me so happy I never went into that sort of law. Even when I was a litigator, the worst I saw was a city planner in the pocket of a local developer. And that sort of stuff does not keep me up at night.

 

[AndyPanda]

This is a GLP forum, isn’t it?

 

[hexagonal]

This is a GLP forum, isn’t it?

And LSH is a major provider of compounded GLP1s

 

[Superfluous]

My mother had an etopic pregnancy when I was young. She had to get one of her ovaries removed. When she woke up from the operation she had a wound... on the wrong side. They accidentally removed the good ovary and left the etopic one in there. She had to have another operation which sterilised her at 23 years old.

So yeah as someone else said people make mistakes - in health care unfortunately mistakes can be costly.

 

[brisket]

This is a GLP forum, isn’t it?

And LSH was our provider of Tirzepatide, does reports of poor behavior of tirzepatide vendors not belong here? There are several such posts here, and this one could have cost a woman her life. There are plenty of stupid people who think ectopic pregnancies can be saved and "transferred" (hint, they cant), and also plenty of violent spouses out there. Had I been both, it could have easily been bad. LSH's reckless behavior and protocols could have causes even more significant harm.