Mr. Turner lived next door to Samantha, a former medical office student. She was assigned at a
laboratory for her community classroom experience. During her experience, she was
responsible for sending laboratory results to physicians' offices. While she was completing her
duties she saw a lab report for her neighbor, Mr. Turner. As it turns out, Mr. Turner was HIV
positive. Samantha went home and told her parents. Her parents were upset to hear about his
condition and worried about the children in the neighborhood. After all, they didn't know much
about HIV and had never met anyone with it before that they knew of anyways. Samantha's
parents told their friends, who happened to live on the other side of Mr. Turner. They told their
neighbor and pretty soon the entire neighborhood knew. Everyone began treating Mr. Turner
differently and would not allow their children to speak to him. Mr. Turner went to his physician
and received his lab results. He also discovered Samantha was a student volunteer at the
laboratory. He was really mad that his personal that very private medical information had been
spread through the neighborhood where he lived. He decided to take action. He sued the
physician, laboratory, and Samantha's parents! (pause for effect) He won! Samantha's parents
were not able to pay the award for damages and were forced to sell their home and everything
they had because their daughter had not kept medical information private.
The Questions


1. What did Samantha do wrong?