Fire Fighters Health Privacy Threatened
Cranston Rhode Island Fire Fighters are to sign a waiver stripping them of medical privacy if they are hurt on the job. The city�s major said that signing the waiver would be a condition of receiving medical treatment should a fire fighter be injured on the job. The waiver would cover pass and future health records. The fire Fighters are asking that the city council intervene in the dispute.
City, Firefighters Tangle Over Privacy Rights, Channel 10 Providence New Bedford, August 23, 2004
