Some are wondering about the double standard that exists:

“So how come it’s okay for patients to blog about their psychiatrists, without disguise, without permission, without hesitation?”

I just had to address this because this one-sidedness (if that’s a word) is something I see in the correctional world. Here’s how it happens:

Inmate X gets released and goes to the media. He/she alleges that the correctional facility, as well as correctional physician or nurses, are horrible incompetent sadistic people who provided terrible care. Inmate X is quoted in the newspaper along with detailed allegations of how he/she was mistreated. Because of healthcare privacy laws, the news media cannot be given factual information from the medical record which directly contradicts the inmate’s claims. The article states only that ‘the facility/administrator declined to provide information about inmate X citing medical confidentiality’. Thus, it appears that someone is covering up something.