PS: They are not a teaching agency....and I checked through the entire HIPAA act online, and it doesn't only apply to written records...you are not allowed to discuss a person-short of asking a faculty or senior member of staff for advice or actual assistance with patient care, and use identifying information.

They were talking about my medical history-amongst themselves...and, as my therapist has said, about my living situation, and my relationship with the providers that were involved with people who had no involvement, and "did not need to know" anything about me...that people who have not worked there in 2 years recognize me, and remember specific details-that's not good...plus there's a ton of other issues at play, but suffice to say, after reading the specifics of HIPAA, I have the three emails, and each of them is a violation.

But it's like I said-really, people like that are not worth my time...my life is a whole lot different now: my illness is way better under control. They essentially had said some horrible things to me, based on things that family members of mine had out and out lied about, and used it as "the holy grail," as if "of course she can't be telling the truth" type of thing, and honestly even though the whole thing reeks, I don't want to deal with it.

I can't put it past them to start a smear campaign, and I'm past that. I've been down the road before in court things--and yes, also reporting a physician. And none of it was very pleasant. And in the case of the doc, I was treated respectfully by the medical board, and the doc was reprimanded, but try and get care in that community again? Yeah, right. They're hard lessons to learn, but really valuable ones. Docs (and agencies) bind together, and CYA, so it's not worth the fight.

And the less I have to do with them, the better. Get my new housing, and forget about it--that's kinda the plan. Work with the new therapist, and keep working on the new life I have been building for myself.