My Sis sent copies of my private emails to an attorney. Is this legal?

For saving important e-mails, I am old school, I print them out and put them into a notebook.... I won't save them on-line.

If I need an old email to be sent to someone, I scan it and attach it to the new outgoing email.

Yes she can use your emails as evidence. Are there any of hers that you can also use? Do you have an attorney? You may want to consult with a geriatric care manager to do an assessment of your Mom. In my own situation, very very ugly with siblings, document document document! Good luck!

I found a sample of a Statement of Confidentiality..... "The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. This transmission is sent in trust, for the sole purpose of delivery to the intended recipient. If you have received this transmission in error, any use, reproduction or dissemination of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail or phone and delete this message and its attachments, if any."

Forget about medical confidentiality.
I have heard that by next year all medical records have to be digitalized and all networks have to be connected.
Nurses may refuse to discuss a patients condition with their family if the patient refuses but imagine who else can go on a fishing expedition.

I hate this digital data for my medical history. 2 years ago, my doctor prescribed for the first time to me Lipitor 40mg for an overall cholest of 249H (Trig 64, HDL 65, LDL 171). I asked him repeatedly to start me off with the lowest dosage possible. I told him that for my body, 1 Nyquil is enough to knock me out and still be in Lala land at 9am the next morning. That 1 Tylenol is enough to ease my headaches. He Refused. So, I tried taking that it - for a month. Terrible terrible headaches (didn't feel like the headaches that I usually get) all day, all night. Wake up with it, go to sleep with it. I gave up after a month. On my next 6month visit, I admitted why I wasn't taking the pills. He looked into the computer chart and said that he did not prescribe 40mg but 20mg. Because I insisted and refused to back down, h e then turned to the Paper chart. He kept backtracking until the date. I heard him gasp. He did NOT admit that he prescribed 40mg. So, it's scary how the paper document did not match the online document. Now, when I go, he rarely even writes anything on paper. As I talk about my symptoms, he's there typing the info on the computer. Scary, huh? No more paper trail.

I, on the other hand, like the digital data.... I like how one doctor can send today's appointment info including blood test results automatically over to my primary doctor, thus eliminated the need to take identically blood tests when I visit my primary doctor. Or if I need to go to the ER and I can't remember what meds I am taking, the ER can pull that info from my primary doctor's files all via laptop.

But on the other hand, I can understand the privacy issue. But there isn't anything in my records that would be bothersome to anyone else. Now a days no one can be denied health insurance because of their medical history :)

On frightening prescription errors. Well, POA sis set up billing from Mom's pharmacy at the grocery store. We had just increased mom's Seroquel dosage and cutting those little 25 mg tablets is a bit difficult. So the doc was to call in 50 mg tablets, which they did, but in the same number of pills as if it was the 25 mg tablets, with the 25 mg instructions on the label. So upon administering the medication, if anybody other than me had done it, they would have given Mom twice her normal dosage. Then somehow the pharmacy screwed it up again and dispensed three times what should have been prescribed!

So, combination of error between the doc and the pharmacy could have been very dangerous, even deadly for my Mom. If nothing else, you would think that the pharmacy would have noticed that something was just not right, called the doc to check on it? But evidently not. At least they took the prescription back and then had to dispose of over $1,000.00 worth of medication. It was a 90 day supply.

This is a bit ...??????? Hmmmm - - if you cut 25 in half you have 12.5 mg.... so what was the increase to...?? 25mg ??.. You did not say ???... O.k. I assume she was increased to 25 mg, and by ordering 50mg tablets you can save money, lots of folks do that... it saves the Insurance also money, if they were a copay medication... as U can cut those in half and have 15 tabs last 30 days.... If the Pharm. made a mistake and gave you 90 tabs for 180 days worth supply of meds... why did you not just put the overflow in the fridge, and keep 30 at room temp. and use 1/2 tab / day { if they were to be taken once a day} for 60 days.... If the price was that high...you should have said "" thankyou God !!! I'll accept the present this time..."" however, since you got 180 days worth supply... you would also not have had to re-order for 180 days... thereby would not have stolen a thing... I do not understand that there was any problem except it would have saved you a few trips to the drugstore...???

....the spoken word is like the air, the written word is always there...

I prefer to send a copies to myself using the "BCC" to my email in yahoo, gmail and aol. With the BCC (instead of the CC), the one receiving the email will Not know that you're sending it to yourself. Unless you want them to know. My family's email is yahoo. Online orders is aol. And gmail -is for work. I send copies to aol and gmail because several times I got locked out in yahoo. It wouldn't accept my password.