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> I am not convinced this is widespread behavior

One is too many.




The problem with that attitude is what you do with the information that at least one out of 20 million (US) healthcare workers has committed a privacy infraction.

Yes, it was wrong for that one person to do that. Yes, they should face appropriate consequences in order to attempt to make the victim whole, to change their own behavior, and to serve as a warning/deterrent to reduce the probability that their peers will make the same mistake.

But one infraction does not mean that people should stop going to the doctor; that harm is a negligible, infinitesimal fraction of the benefit that medical professionals provide to our society. A news article warning about "Doctors on TikTok" will, at the margins, cause some people to not seek care they need, and can cause far more harm than one instance of this behavior.




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