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I was just wondering if there was any violation of HIPAA if a high school student shadowed a psychiatrist? Sat in on meetings about patients that the patient did not give consent for the student to hear about? Etc? Can you you tell me any specific laws or reasons if it's against HIPAA?

My dog is a coonhound/doberman and will not, under any circumstance jump on me when I come in the door. But when strangers come in, she'll jump on them. Unless they're kids. When we are at say a park, she won't jump on strangers. Only in my home. Is she asserting dominance over them? Or does she just want attention? She won't do it to me. I am alpha. How can I get her to stop? It's very, very annoying. She gets so excited and so exasperated, it's almost impossible to get her to stop. I have tried having people turn their backs and ignore her, but she doesn't care and will go around to the front. Where I tell them to turn around again. She still doesn't care. It's really frustrating and she's such a good dog, but makes herself look like a baffoon when people walk in.

About a year ago I got a dog from a rescue. I thought the place was ridiculous, charged outrageous amounts (I paid 275.00 for a mutt, but I couldn't leave her behind). I left a not so promising review online and she calls SCREAMING at me, telling me I'm immature (repeated that 14 times) and that she would have my dog taken away and I better take the review down, or I'll be speaking to her lawyer. I laughed at her. I knew something was up, so I checked her dockets online. The week before I wrote the review she got charged with six counts of failure to keep a sanitary and humane kennel. I also noticed that on one of my local news shows that she was cited for dog theft, because she switched a microchip with another families dog, so that family would pay for the four hundred dollar surgery for the animal that wasn't theirs. It got dropped to "bad record keeping". A misdemeanor, because she had a good lawyer. NOW I recently contacted my dogs previous owners, by way of a lifetime license and their name on it, so they could see that their dog was safe. They loved her a lot and said "we even sponsored her 200 dollars so that someone would take her more fast, and I hope you got the crate, the toys, the harnesses and all the other stuff we sent with her. I got NOTHING. Not even the 200 dollars sponsor. A mutt adult there is 275 dollars. And that's what I paid. So who do I report this woman too? She had my review taken down. She canceled her BBB, because there were so many complaints. It's not public anymore. She actually got about `12 negative reviews taken down of citysearch. I emailed them to ask why and they said she said "I lied in it". I never lied and I'm sure other people didn't either, who reported dead puppies and animals with Kennel cough and parasites.

I was just in the ER yesterday and they found a huge cyst on my ovary. They said I had to follow up with my OB/GYN for hormone therapy to shrink it.

They gave me like 9 pills for pain. That will last me just over two days? And then what do I do? It's a non narcotic, tramadol, but it works. And when it starts to wear off I am doubled over in pain. I'm supposed to take it every six hours. But what do I do in two days when they're gone? I'm not going to get in that fast to see an OB/GYN? Do I go back to the ER? Do I ask my Primary care physician?

What should I do? She's like racing 100mph and telling me about these moths with their probes that are eating her and her cats and how she can't eat, because they eat all her food and they breed in her couch and she's put books on her couch. And she lives above me and she is up all night moving furniture. She's moving her cats from her car to her house. She says that these moths make her sweat. Most of the things I couldn't even understand.

At first I thought maybe she was psychotic, but I'm pretty sure she's on something. Her skin is all torn up. She says there is eggs from the moths under her skin. She's frail, she hasn't slept in two days. Her pupils are HUGE. And I'm sort of naive about this stuff? What should I do?

I hear beeps, door bell rings, buzzes and they have no source. Sometimes they're low pitch and sometimes really shrill. Sometimes they sound like ekg machines or cell phones or blood pressure cuffs. I have learned to count on my dog to tell me if the doorbell is actually ringing. I also hear music quite frequently. With no source. Fans make it worse. Rarely does the music have lyrics to it. I can hear a TV right now. Like the amplification of a action film right above me and I don't know if it's real or not. But if it was, when I walked outside my neighbors windows are open and it would get louder right?

This happened to me once and I'm not sure what it is, but it's something I'll never forget. I don't have a definitive mental health diagnosis. They just know I'm sick and cannot function. I was diagnosed PTSD. But more so because of restraints and seclusion in psychiatric wards. Which is only icing on the cake. Why was I there to begin with?

This one time I was walking outside with a friend and I started sobbing because I felt the world was ending past the stop sign ahead of me. I have no idea how to explain it, but it was like I saw it, but it wasn't real to me. Like I thought it was a mirage or that it was a crossing line between heaven and hell and anyone on that side was evil and couldn't be touched. I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't help it. I was hyperventilating I was so upset. I was so afraid, I was jumpy and ran back inside. I think it was a panic attack in response to the feeling I got? I felt like at any moment, any second I would walk off the edge of the earth and that would be it.

What was this? I fear asking my psychiatrist a lot of questions, because I sort of suck at communicating and I'm embarrassed to ask him if I can write things instead, because I can't think and talk. Writing is much easier for me.

I'll be eating, with my back turned towards her and I'll look back and she'll quickly avert her eyes and look away almost as if to say "what me? I'm not begging." But i know that dogs don't think like us. So what does that mean?

I adopted a doberman from a rescue. The rescue had issues with honesty and didn't let me know that the original owner gave the dog away because it bit her autistic son. She is a doberman and seems to just be "wired" wrong. She will flip out over every little thing. Just now I tried to correct her for leaving the property and she tried to attack me. Snarling, growling, attack me. Earlier today I tried to get her to stop chewing at her side and my vet suggested an E collar. She punctured my hand in the process. Now it may seem that things trigger it, but at random times I will be sitting at my computer or doing dishes or petting her and she will attack me. I have had her to vets and behaviorists and nobody can help her. Nothing medically is wrong. The rescue I got her from has a lot of issues with the law now, they even lied to me about her breed. They told me she was a pointer but she was a doberman. She was so emaciated when I picked her up that I couldn't tell the difference. It may come across that there is a dominance thing here, but outside of the aggression she is very loyal to me. Walks beside me on the leash, sleeps on the floor next to me. She has snapped at 2 of the neighbor kids and then I said "no more" and wouldn't allow them to pet her. She has snapped at my little niece and the worst part is even if I wanted to muzzle her, she wouldn't let me. I have tried and she again attacks me. When I take her to the vets we have to sedate her so she doesn't bite anyone. I live alone and I love her to death, but I cannot live in a prison anymore, never knowing when I'm going to get hurt. Would it be best just to end it? I feel so horrible that I failed her. But I myself have PTSD and it's literally very traumatizing to have a dog walking around your home who may attack at any moment. It's even more traumatizing when she does.

So I posted this review of this local business online. The next day the owner calls me, threatening me. Calling me names, telling me "You finished this and I'm going to end it". When i told her to get lost after she told me to take down the review. This woman is whack. She owners a dog rescue, but she's not in it for the animals. Charging 400 dollars for a mutt. And then later she got the review removed. Somehow. I tried emailing the review company but nothing came about. When I posted there was 16 negative reviews and now there is nine. Later I found out that according to public domain, just a month ago she was charged with six counts of failure to keep a sanitary and humane kennel. If I posted that on a new review, is that at all slanderous? It's from court dockets, that have the charges. I want to stay within the law, while still not letting her win. Is it illegal to use court dockets against anyone like this? Any input?

I have an autoimmune disorder, Narcolepsy. I haven't been sick with a cold, flu, stomach virus, etc, etc in 5 years or so. I've never had strep throat, pink eye, sinus infections. And I'm around sick people all the time. The only thing I've contracted in years are the horrible things our bodies would be foreign to their new discovery. MRSA and CDIFF. When everyone around me is hacking up a storm I never catch it. Those two things and prevention of infection from a stray cat are the only things I've been on antibiotics for in my life. Am I super immune because of my auto immune disorder? My body fights too hard? Is that possible?

My dog, who I rescued will not pee outside when it's cold, but she won't pee inside either. And it worries me. She will go up to 15 hours without peeing. That can't be healthy. If there is snow on the ground especially. She's never had an accident inside, I think because her former owners were really abusive. She's completely housetrained, too well. I almost wish she would learn to use puppy pads at least, but she won't. She just holds it. I give her ample time to pee, give her her favorite spots, shovel the snow away from her favorite spots. And she still won't go. What can I do? If it's a warm day, she's fine and pees normally.