Terrorist-a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aim

Hmmm.... that DOES sound a bit familiar...

Agreed. Handing over personal info is not unlike handing the wrong person a loaded gun.

HIPAA seems to be one of the rare laws that actually results in significant damages. Will be interesting to see the size of the fine on this.

Likely the hospital gets hit as well for allowing him access to medical records on patients he had nothing to do with. Shouldn't have been possible in the first place.

This guy's career is over. I'm sure he'll do okay financially by selling ivermectin to bigoted dimwits, but I doubt he will be practicing real medicine ever again.

Multiple violations, because he released multiple patients’ info. Off the top of my head, I believe it’s up to $250k and 10 years per violation, but the jail time could be served concurrently instead of consecutively.

The irony of the doctor's name not being in the headline....

His name is Dr. Eithan Haim

At least in this administration.

Don't forget to vote in November. I know we all said we aren't voting for Biden but the realities for project 2025 are beginning to set in.

Compromising PII is a hipaa violation, that isn’t taken lightly anywhere. He may not get the full 10 years but he will be slapped for this.

He probably won't get anywhere close to 10 years, if he even gets prison time.

For finding and eliminating the “vermin” the orange shit stain keeps screaming about.

So, are all conservatives blood lusting, self centered, self absorbed ass holes?

It's not about the details of care, but the general information on who is transgender and who was providing or was involved in the care.

With the purpose to "cause malicious harm" as the article says. Which means, they will harass and try to scare involved parties into hiding, leaving or stopping to provide care.

This Conservative activist already published the information to discredit the children's hospital, create a scandal on how they are harming children with the goal that the hospital will stop providing care in fear of bad press.

Their goal is to scare every trans person back deep into the closet (or to leave) and to scare all possible care out of existence, even when legal.

The basic motive is HATE. Plain and simple. Hate of that what is different and the need to control the people around them to live by their beliefs and moral standards.

It was purely ideological. He claims to be a whistleblower, but he's just a bigoted asshole that has no business working in medicine.