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Journos Struggle To Balance Ebola Reporting

Poynter | by TVNewsCheck

A health story of national proportions like the Ebola story pits the role of journalism against HIPPA rules, which restricts patient information to doctors, direct caregivers, insurance companies and others expressly named in the act. A top medical ethicist says the law allows some leeway when a national health crisis is involved, but those loopholes do not apply to journalists.