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Case Study: Hageman V. Southwest General Health Center

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James, I fully agree that it will be ill- advised to follow the HMH board members advocating for Mr. Longs's medical history release. The confidientiality of a patient records is to be strongly valued and release of such records are to be strictly construed in accordance with their terms. In the case called Hageman v. Southwest General Health Center the plantiff Kenneth Hageman, was recieving psychiatric treatment and during his course of treatment his wife sued him for divorce. Well, too make a long story short, Mr. Hageman gave authorization to his wife attorney for release of his medical records due to a custody battle. Therafter, his wife attorney released his records to the prosecuting attorney in his wife assult case against Mr. Hageman.

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