Mary Smith has been a patient of Dr. Williams from 1985 to the present time. Dur

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Mary Smith has been a patient of Dr. Williams from 1985 to the present time. During that time, she has had three children and been treated for a variety of conditions, including depression in 1986 and herpes in 1990. Mary and her husband, George, have filed for divorce. George wants custody of the children and is claiming that Mary has a medical condition that makes her an unfit mother. An attorney, acting on George's behalf in the divorce proceedings, has obtained a subpoena for Mary's medical records for the years 1995 to the present. Dr. Williams's assistant, who is a medical records technician, copies Mary's entire medical record from 1985 to the present and sends it to the attorney.

Conclude the results that may occur because of this situation.

Explanation / Answer

Dr William's assistant is wrong on her act of doing copies of the medical record of Mary and giving it to the Attorney of George for these two reasons:

1. Dr William's assistant should not have copied these documents and gave it to the Attorney before the date specified in the Subpeona, as the case may be there where the subpeona may be taken back/squashed by the other's side attorney

2. Secondly, the Assistant should not have copied all the medical records i.e from 1985 to till present, the subpeona is given for medical records from 1995 to the present.

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