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Your doctor is recording you. A 1968 wiretap law might make that a felony. Nobody can agree, and nobody is asking you.

Reddit r/medicine·u/xx2lit·about 1 month ago
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Your doctor is recording you. A 1968 wiretap law might make that a felony. Nobody can agree, and nobody is asking you. I'm bringing this to the sub because I haven't seen it discussed and I think it should be. When was the last time you used AI to check a dose, draft an HPI, summarize a DC? Now imagine getting sued a month later bc a patient decided her voice might be used nefariously bc AI was in the room. Nobody was hurt. Patient did fine. Did you actually do anything wrong, or is this just a patient panic turned into litigation? Here's the setup: HIPAA → fine. BAA (the contract that lets companies like Epic + Microsoft work with your hospital) → fine, assuming you have monopoly-grade infrastructure. Hospital-approved vendor → fine. State wiretap statutes from the 60s-70s, written for FBI bugs and divorce-case PIs → not fine. Seven states including PA and CA. Class actions just hit Sharp HealthCare (Jan 2026) and Sutter Health (Apr 2026) under CA's CIPA. $5,000 per recording. Statutory.…

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