Doctors Censor Patients on Web
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 29th, 2011 4:45 am by HL
Doctors Censor Patients on Web
A growing trend in medical care is for doctors to make patients sign an agreement that grants the doctor the copyright to anything the patient says about them online — enabling them to demand its removal from the web. “It’s completely unethical for doctors to force their patients to sign away their rights in order to get medical care,” said law professors Jason Schultz, who publishes the site Doctored Reviews about the trend.