How much do doctors need to know? With Internet-based personal health records on the rise, debate is intensifying:
“People are suddenly going to find there’s no way to compartmentalize the sensitive things in their health histories from the nonsensitive things in their health histories,” said Rothstein, a lawyer who also is director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
“Someone who is treating you for a broken leg doesn’t need to know you had an abortion 20 years ago.”
