I went to the dentist yesterday (Bright Now in Castle Rock, CO). This was the first time at this dentist. I was not happy. Well, I was ok with it until my wife and I started talking about it. (She went too). The biggest concern was that there was no privacy.
This dentist’s practice had four or five chairs in a single room with just some short walls between them. This meant that anything anyone said could be heard by everyone else in the room. So my wife got to hear everything about my diagnosis and I everything about hers. We also got to hear the diagnosis of someone else who neither of us knew. And they got to hear ours as well.
Is that wrong or what?
From the office’s perspective they’re legally covered and can’t be sued for disclosing things that are overheard by others. This is because it’s only the patient who can waive the doctor-patient privilege. As soon as we accepted treatment in that room which we knew was not private we waived that privilege.
Needless to say we’re now looking for another new dentist.