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Clash of religion, privacy creates difficult exposure.
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Business Insurance
Publication Date: 05-JAN-04 |
Format: Online - approximately 1005 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access |
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Full Article Title: Clash of religion, privacy creates difficult exposure.(News) |
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Byline: MICHAEL BRADFORD
When an employee's religious beliefs clash with an employer's privacy rules, the temptation to tattle can sometimes be overwhelming.
As a result, employers are left with a hard-to-handle exposure: the possibility that a devout employee will break privacy regulations in the name of a greater good.
Dr. Gerald L. Bullock, who practiced medicine in Denison, Texas, in the 1980s, said he was stunned when a bookkeeper at his office released patient information to her church elders. As a Jehovah's Witness, the woman admitted that she was following what she perceived as her obligation to her church to report on a fellow church member's perceived sinful behavior, the doctor explained.
The patient had been treated by Dr. Bullock for a sexually transmitted disease. The Sunday after his employee released that information to church elders, the patient was expelled from the church, he said, and told not to...
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