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It is possible your doctor doesn’t fully understand concerns here. Or maybe he does and doesn’t give a shit. If it is the first case, maybe there is some hope - we can try and educate them doctors.

I don’t know how to accomplish this, but we need to educate as many people as we can about privacy

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If my doctor doesn’t understand or care about something as basic as doctor/patient confidentiality then I feel like there may be deeper problems

Don’t conflate doctor/patient confidentiality and data security. If someone broke into an office and stole medical records, that’s not a violation of doctor/patient confidentiality, even if the doctor chose crappy locks on their doors.

It's a technical problem. Computer is still Magic Box to most people. All they know is marketing. There's a lot of lies around software and it's trivial to get someone, anyone, to upload even very compromising information. Just say you're secure, that you got certification X and businesses A - F use you.

Hell, even tech companies fall for this. They'll upload their shit to some cloud without setting up proper guards because "oh well it's Atlassian". Hope you don't have anything too compromising in that Jira!

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