Patient Lists Their Mistress as Emergency Contact, Gets Exposed

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    Text - Posted by u/eatapeach18 3 days ago I called d my patient's mistress, but I was just doing what I was told oc L This happened back in 2009. I was working part time at a doctor's office while I was in nursing school. I was one of the receptionists and did all the filing and cataloguing and such. It was boring work, but the doctor (my boss) guaranteed me a job after nursing school so that's why I did it. This particular doctor was an orthopedic surgeon. We had lots of patients coming in for
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    Text - It was imperative that Frank got his images or else he wouldn't be able to have his surgery. So I looked in his file to see if he had any other contact information. He listed his home phone number, as well as his wife's cell. I called his house and left a message, and I also called his wife, Amy, but she didn't answer either so I left her a message as well. The office manager, Diane, told me to just call whoever was listed in his emergency contacts because if Frank didn't get his images a
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    Text - I didn't want to get fired for being insubordinate, so I called Helen and she actually answered her phone (I was secretly hoping she wouldn't) and told her Frank's images needed to be picked up prior to his surgery. She came by during lunch, got the images, and then left. I immediately called Frank again to let him know that Helen picked up his images and to not worry about it, but this fool wasn't answering his phone, soI left him another message. A couple hours later, Amy called back an
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    Text - Me: [at this point I'm really nervous] No, not his brother. Amy: Well then who? Me: Helen. Amy: Who is Helen? I don't know anyone named Helen. Me: I'm not sure, but since she was on Frank's emergency contact list and no one else was answering their phone, we called her and she already came and got the images. Confused, Amy hung up.
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    Text - The following day was Frank's surgery. The day after Frank's surgery, my boss jokingly asked me "What the hell did you do to that guy?? He came in all pissed at me saying that my secretary told his wife about his other girlfriend." I told my boss what happened and that Diane told me to call the girlfriend, and he understood. Diane tried to throw me under the bus by saying I didn't tell her that Helen was Frank's girlfriend, and that I had told her Helen was "just a friend," and that she n

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