Reply #63: Sorry about that...

[PCIntern]

I'm a dentist in Center City Philadelphia and hear lots. And lots. HIPAA is the federal act which prohibits us from divulging confidential information which we learn from the patient during visits. This applies ot everything including social history and family history. So there's much I can't say around here - but am somewhat amused at times...if only you knew...but them's the breaks.

What I've learned over the years is that there is a whole subculture of people who know a whole lotta crap that if the general public knew, it'd be outraged, but as a professional you just don't talk. If you do, you get a Rep (as Rocky would say in Rocky (the first one)) and no one ever tells you anything ever.

And in some cases, you can...well, die from telling the wrong people the wrong stuff.

Trust me...