Fawcett’s File Leaked by UCLA Staff
Another security breach for stubborn UCLA Medical Center personnels.
Merely a couple of weeks after reports that employees were given disciplinary actions regarding the unofficial probing in Britney Spears’ medical record comes a report that a comparable breach transpired. This time it’s Farah Fawcett’s private documents, a breach that heralded the tabloids’ relaying her cancer analysis way ahead of her. An account states that the poor actress hadn’t even disclosed the condition to her own friends and family.
While, according to the Los Angeles Times, an in-house evaluation did not find crucial confirmation that the member of staff who frequently accessed Fawcett’s records sold information about her condition, the employee has since been fired.
Reports of the return of Fawcett’s cancer and the nature of her situation were published in the National Enquirer even before she had the option to update friends and family. Consequently, distressing facts on her treatment were printed in both the Enquirer and its sister publication, The Globe, a couple of days after her hospital appoinment.
A UCLA rep mentioned the 61-year-old actress advised her doctor last May that her state had been leaked to the tabloids, alarms the doc then passed on to the hospital management.
Creating even more trouble was the fact that Fawcett was getting treatment at the hospital under a pseudonym.
Right after checking into the documents, the center revealed “multiple reviews” of her records by a staff who was not concerned in the actress’ cure. The employee’s name has been withheld, due to, paradoxically, confidentiality.
This is not the first time Fawcett’s privacy has been tampered while receiving care at the hospital. Last 2006, the ex-Charlie’s Angels celeb was featured on a blog created by a previous hospital service provider, who exposed her condition as a patient.
“She’s been invaded—and these are the people who she entrusted her life to,” Craig J. Nevius, producer of A Wing and a Prayer, a forthcoming docu narrating Fawcett’s treatment.
Kim Schwartz, Fawcett’s legal counsel, on the interim, advised the publication that while the star, being a tremendously private individual, was hesitant to take an official battle against the hospital, it was just “such an ugly situation.”
“This has been very hard for her. Not knowing who has her personal information has taken an incredible toll on her.”
As of the moment Fawcett is justifiably no longer getting treatment at UCLA Medical Center. She is now being cared by doctors based in Germany and goes through any requisite testing or follow-up treatment at a different, anonymous Los Angeles center.
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