OT: The Jason Pierre Paul saga
This is probably old news for many on the boards, as it has been circulating since the weekend. On the 4th, it seems that Jason Pierre Paul was injured by a firework and received burns on his hands. Yesterday, a cell phone picture of his medical record was leaked on twitter which showed that he was having a surgery to amputate his right index finger. It’s being reported that a hospital employee took the image and sent it to a friend, who posted it on twitter. Because of this whole episode, the Giants rescinded a $60 million offer that they had given JPP.
So, since HIPAA (please don’t comment below saying HIPPA) law was clearly violated, I’m very interested in continuing to follow this. I work quite a bit with HIPAA law, and it’s just nauseating that a hospital employee could be that stupid and cavalier with medical data. He may end up in jail, and he deserves to. As for the hospital, HIPAA fines from the OCR have been in the multi-million dollar range. That is typically due to a high volume data breach. I’m curious to find if a civil suit could come up to that range based off of one person losing several million dollars in contract money.
Let me stop any arguments to the contrary before they are started. Even if JPP has an agreement in place with the NFL and waives his HIPAA rights, the nature of the data breach means that HIPAA law was broken. This wasn’t the NFL releasing the data, it was some slack jawed nurse, or IT guy, or facilities person.
ON TOP OF ALL THAT – JPP may face criminal charges because fireworks are illegal in Florida. The convolution runs deep in this story.
TLDR – Jason Pierre Paul blew off his finger with firework. He may face criminal charges, but only because a hospital employee broke the law first and released his medical issue. The Giants said “We good” and rescinded his offer. Now there is HIPAA blowback on ESPN and the hospital for letting this come to light. It’s only appropriate that this happened in Florida.
I mean, I've never had a big booming firework, but I've also never been tempted to go get ones that could easily kill me
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July 8, back when I was 12 years old. I was helping out at an Eagle Scout project, we were cleaning up an underserviced park, and I found the M-80 under a large cement slab.
I incorrectly assumed it was a smoke bomb.
Bad mistake.
The pain from this sort of injury, when your fingers get peeled like bananas, and finger bones stick out like a Halloween model, is difficult to describe. The pain was so intense I wished for death. Nothing has ever really hurt since. The doctors pointed out that a blast injury of the hand is about as bad as pain gets, since (1) nerve concentration is higher in fingerpads than almost anywhere else, and (2) blast injuries tear nerves ragged, instead of slicing cleanly.
I was lucky: St. Joeseph's had a world-renowned hand surgeon who was visiting that week. He was able to save all my fingerpads, and only amputated 3/4" of my right thumb. My eye made a full recovery. After therapy, I was told that St. Joe's sees 5 or 6 cases of M-80 ignition in hand every year, and my year everyone else lost multiple digits and/or eyes. So I was very fortunate.
Jason will learn. Lighting a firework like that in your hand is a mistake you only make one time.
Glad you were mostly ok.
not even a true enemy. I'm really fortunate it turned out as well as it did.
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What has 9 fingers and is overrated?
Hubris and amateurs doing fireworks are a bad combination.
Sidenote, how many of you saw the photo of his hand post accident on liveleak? Absolutely brutal. It looked like a couple of his fingers had essentially all skin and muscle blown off of them. Pure bone.
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Some people are just not good at assessing risk, or perhaps have that "invincible" feeling. It's like the millionaires who get drunk and drive home when they could easily afford a driver for the evening.
If JPP wanted to see things go boom so badly, he could have easily hired some professionals to do it. Instead he did this, and is going to lose Millions in the process. Rightly so.
You forgot doctor. FTFY
To play devil's advocate, and set aside all of the medical records stuff for a second. If JPP did something he wasn't supposed to and hurt himself, the GIants absolutely have something in his contract to deal with that, so it doesn't really seem like this is an issue for them. They would have found out about the finger eventually, and just like Jeff Kent, he would be in doodoo.
The Giants' team doctors would have examined him before any deal, regardless.
As for HIPAA, there are actual provisions in the law against civil suits; the penalties come in the form of CMS fines instead. The hospital will be protected from suits as long as they required the at fault employee to complete privacy training.
As for the person who took the picture? He should be tarred and feathered for general lack of decency or common sense.
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Sure, but I would assume that he could file a claim based off of invasion of privacy. I guess my phrasing was kind of generic and misleading.
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He's not part of a covered entity, so he's completely clear of HIPAA law. But he still looks bad in the court of public opinion. It's just Busch league to spread something like that.
You said HIPPA. OP is gonna be mad at you forever...
Yeah it felt dirty watching him report that. He looked like a conniving weasel. As soon as I saw that picture I knew some peice of shit working at the hospital took it. I think he crossed the line and should've known better. Agreed, definitely busch league.
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have a contract or a team right now.
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with your latter comment.
I think the real problem is that they're manufacturing dumber and dumber people.
How is this any different than say Minick's BAC being released? Or the Ray Rice details? Just because JPP was in a hospital?
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Yes. Just because JPP was in the hospital. You answered your own question.
Obviously you dont work in the legal field.
It's really no different than anything TMZ does/ buys., except for the fact that lawyers "convinced" politicians to make up a nonsense law so that the lawyers could make more money.
So let's say you or a loved one contracts HIV (sexually, transfusion, bad monkey meat - however). You're cool with the hospital releasing that information to the public at large? Really?
Because if you're not, that's the sort of disclosure HIPAA protects against.
Orangutan is delicious, worth the risk every time.