Kathryn Knott, a ER technician, turned herself in to the Philadelphia police for being envolved with the beating of two homosexuals. After some investigation, her social media pages stated to attract many views. There, she expresses homophobia, drunkenness, and unethical references towards her pages; including pictures. She would pots pictures of her patients x-rays accompanied by inappropriate comments. Some were “Why would you clean your gutters in the rain?”, “Kid had way too much fun at lacosta last night. Swallowed a pen spring." or “the locals of lansdale are gross come to the ER & see for urself.” Knott was fired from her job and the hospital stated a investigation on the other technician`s twitter accounts. The author points out that since Knott did not name any of the patients, he might never face other law suits. However, there are many other people doing the same as Knott. A doctor stated in contrast to Randy Cohen`s "The Ethicist", public displays of such humor on the Internet, along with photos that even if not identified could be identifiable, are inappropriate and unprofessional."
This article is written by Mary Elizabeth Williams to Salon. This is a very efficient informative article. They author talks about the unethical actions that technicians take online towards their patients. She starts with the example of Kathryn Knott. After the resolution of that case, she talks about other similar. She then states a counterargument for the problem. Her closing paragraph leaves the reader with a shock, since the reader themselves are patients. They are the ones being treated as punch lines.
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/26/kathryn_knott_proves_how_shaky_your_patient_privacy_is/
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