An emergency room physician in Rhode Island lost her privileges due to her posting some notable cases on Facebook in which she never used the patients name or ages. To the hospital's and physicians dismay "unauthorized third parties" were able to determine a patient's identity from the post online. When the physician learned of this, she immediately deleted the account. The hospital determined that the physician used her Facebook account "inappropriately". The hospital did determine that she and the hospital that she had "no intention to reveal any confidential patient information."
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