Lack of Privacy with Patients

Recorded:
Oct 2023
Speaker
Dr. Clayton Alfonso
Duration
00:01:20
AUDIO CLIP
TRANSCRIPT

Dr. Clayton Alfonso: I think we’ve got a long road ahead. I think the stress that provides for me is it takes away my ability to have that personal private conversation with my patient and for the patient in the room, which is usually a confidential space of where you’re talking to me, make the best decision for health care that impacts you. And that can be to get contraception, that can be to get sterilization, that can be to have an abortion, that can be to have that pregnancy and deliver that baby. That could be any aspect of the care you get in my room. Confidential STI screening, intimate partner violence. I mean, we see it all and the interference in that space. To feel like my hands are tied in certain aspects of what I can provide is really disheartening and a challenge. In no other field of health care, do you go into an exam room and are limited in the choices you can make because some person in your state that you don’t know makes a law that goes against your personal values.

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