CHAPTER 12
Safeguarding Patient Data from Prying Eyes
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
—Robert Quillen
The American author and humorist Robert Quillen once joked that anyone could show a profit if he counted all of his assets. In other words, the picture is not always as bleak when you can look at the big picture.
I argue that there is a counterpart to that sense of peace that can come from a broad inventory, and this is a sense of unease that exists when you can’t account for things you know you should be able to locate.
“I know I have those tickets to the ball game next week around here somewhere, but I can’t remember where I put them!”
Whatever it might be, when we can’t account for ...
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