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Docs Get Off Easy in Brit Snooping Scandal

Posted Apr 12th 2008 11:00AM by TMZ Staff

Britney SpearsAll those years in medical school finally paid off for the doctors involved the Britney Spears medical records scandal at UCLA Medical Center.

A new report says that at least 53 UCLA Medical Center employees peeped the popwreck's files when they weren't supposed to -- but the non-doctors got stiffer punishments than the docs did. According to info obtained by the L.A. Times, 18 employees resigned, retired or were dismissed -- none of them physicians.

The report went on to say that the staff at UCLA was celeb-crazed and that employees ran to their computers "within minutes" of Brit's arrival at the hospital back in 2005 for the birth of Sean Preston.

Brit isn't the only celeb to have her records looked through. Farrah Fawcett and Maria Shriver were spied on as well by a UCLA Medical Center employee who also allegedly went through the files of 32 other celebs.

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1. Fire them all, I say. No don't strip licenses away, but losing your job should be immediate.

Posted at 11:12AM on Apr 12th 2008 by annie2

2. I love britney

Posted at 11:14AM on Apr 12th 2008 by Ileana

3. Employees cost the hospital money. Doctors bring money into the hospital. Figure it out....

Posted at 11:25AM on Apr 12th 2008 by Angiebaby

4. Angiebaby(message #4),
Obviously you didn't finish high school...that's one of the most dumbest statements I've seen today. Next time you're a patient who can't get out of bed and your bedpan is overflowing...do it yourself or call a doctor to empty it.

Posted at 11:33AM on Apr 12th 2008 by TBA

5.


IT'S BEEN SO WONDERFUL NOT HAVING TO HEAR ABOUT OR SEE BRITNEY AS FRONT PAGE NEWS ANYMORE...
YAY!



Posted at 11:50AM on Apr 12th 2008 by BITE ME...

6. Her privacy is real important to her, she hardly ever sticks her nappy dugout in the cameras....

Posted at 11:58AM on Apr 12th 2008 by FlBiker

7. the doctors should have been disciplined just as the reg staff. It's called pt confidentiality. They are not above the law. what was talking here was $$$$$. What a crappy hosp. Administration should be ashamed.

Posted at 11:59AM on Apr 12th 2008 by carmen

8. Oh, big deal. Who cares if they looked at her files.

Posted at 12:03PM on Apr 12th 2008 by Tee

9. All the LOSERS flock to millionairefriends.com

Posted at 12:13PM on Apr 12th 2008 by Donald Douche

10. TBA, you make a good point. Nurses and other staff are essential to the running of a hospital. But people go to hospitals because of the doctors not because of the nurses. When you need an operation, you go to the hospital where your doctor has privileges. When I had my babies, I went to the hospital where my obstetrician had privileges. Even if you know the nurses in ICU, you don't have a heart operation at a hospital that doesn't have a top-notch doctor.
I don't know (since they aren't saying) what punishment the doctors are receiving but even if they keep their jobs, they could potentially end up paying more. If their malpractice insurance goes up, if they lose patients over this. Even if the hospital itself doesn't do anything they could end up losing their licenses. Betraying confidentiality is a serious thing and I think everyone will (and should) end up paying for their deeds.

Go Sox

Posted at 12:59PM on Apr 12th 2008 by Baseball Junkie

11. It is clear UCLA doesn't value the privacy and dignity of its patients, celebrity or non-celebrity.

THE MEDICAL BOARD OF CA NEEDS TO PUNISH, AND TAKE AWAY LICENSES OF, DOCTORS WHO VIOLATE PATIENT PRIVACY AND ABUSE THEIR POSITION. THIS IS NOT HARSH BECAUSE THEY VOLUNTARILY BROKE THE LAW. THEY ARE NOT GOD.

Doctors DO NOT abide by patient confidentiality laws and DO gossip about patients. This must stop. We have doctors who brag about celebrity patients to us and who betray medical privacy.

To celebrities and non-celebrities, you must SUE these hospitals and doctors. If we are on your jury, we will support you 100%.

Posted at 1:14PM on Apr 12th 2008 by STRIP DOCTORS LICENSES, SUE THE HOSPITALS

12. Britney Spears isn't worth the spit it would take to get ones mouth wet!!

Posted at 2:02PM on Apr 12th 2008 by clovis spearpoint

13. It's not hospital policy - HIPAA is a federal law since 2003.

The hospital can be held responsible.

Posted at 2:26PM on Apr 12th 2008 by BrownEyedGirl

14. so, we see, as often in life, it is almost incredible how easy people in medical professions get a lot of power and rights
over other persons.
I did not know that the believe in future llifes is so great and sure, that people are doing harm without thinking to other people such an extent.
As our philosophical giant Nietzsche remarked, happiness can be destroyed by llittle things.
Nowadays there are sure ways of destroying happiness by depraving of rights, making public almost every word, making bad commnets on other people and so on and destroying every trustful relationship by conspiracies.

At worst, as in the case of our valuable Mrs, Britney Spears with an abuse of professional, juuridical and state power in general.
There seem to have been not the lightest feeling how a fine and sensible soul can be damaged in an almost irreparable way by such attacks.

Some people in LA may not be aware, that the pursuit of happiness is tha main target of the constitution of the USA.

The Mr. or Mrs. clovis spearpoint of comment #13 has obviously no idea what a worth of a human being could be.

Posted at 2:33PM on Apr 12th 2008 by Harald (Wenk) Dr. rrer. nat.

15. Who gives a damn what's in the files for these ppl the employees need to get a life.

Posted at 2:45PM on Apr 12th 2008 by Pathetic

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