Originally Posted by charlotteweb
I have a friend who worked in a hospital, she was an admitting secretary, when she frist got the job her husbands ex called her to speek about their daughter and talk about the upcoming weekends plans for the daughter, while on the phone the ex asked my friend to look and see when the daughter was last seen in the hospital, my friend looked her up and found out that the daughter had not been seen in many years at that hospital. now about 3 months later the ex and my friends husband had a blowing out. they do not speak to each other or exchange the daughter for visits.5 months after the phone call my friend get fired from her job. because the ex called the hospital and complained that she might get information off her daughters records. To the the bosses and every one at the hospital it looked like my friend just looked up the daughters records for no reason at all. they said it was a prech in the hippa law, can my friend be sued? and is the vialation nation wide will she never be able to work in the medical feild again?