Comments on: Update: “Court dismisses Duluth doctor’s lawsuit against patient’s son”

By: Reddit Reader

Reddit Reader — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:58:34 +0000

The judge’s order is now posted at http://www.onpointnews.com/docs/Mckee-v-Laurion.pdf .

By: Noah Vale

Noah Vale — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:02:29 +0000

Your link to the Grand Forks Herald broke, but the Duluth News Tribune still has a link at http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/197679/publisher_ID/36 , and the Wahpeton Daily News has a shorter article at http://www.wahpetondailynews.com/articles/2011/04/29/breaking_news/doc4dbacce519402570009682.txt .

By: Reddit Reader

Reddit Reader — Sun, 08 May 2011 07:06:45 +0000

“Dennis Laurion is a liar and a bully and a coward,” McKee said. “He knowingly made false and malicious statements about me to a total of 19 different professional and medical organizations, regulatory agencies and websites. ”

Sounds like a public rebuttal to me.

By: Bumper

Bumper — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:06:19 +0000

I don’t believe it was the patient, but rather the patient’s son that went viral. So that begs the question: Did the son have the legal authority to disclose his dad’s private medical information? Yes, if he as power of attorney. No, where’s the wrist slapping now.

By: nevins

nevins — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:41:36 +0000

There is one problem of asymmetry. The physician is substantially restricted in public rebuttal by privacy laws. There needs to be some reasonable mechanism within patient privacy that when the patient chooses to go public with identifying information on the physician, then the physician would be free to publicly rebut using patient identifying information.

By: asdfasdf

asdfasdf — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:32:00 +0000

Why doesn’t the newspaper just post a link to the decision, rather than opining for several paragraphs as to what it thinks the decision said?