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  "path": "/t/how-do-i-compellingly-advocate-for-my-privacy-with-doctors-and-other-healthcare-professionals/38299?page=2#post_26",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T23:47:40.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "tags": [
    "art.77 of the GDPR",
    "Art. 78 of the GDPR"
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  "textContent": "PurpleDime:\n\n> I inquired of my doctor’s receptionist about their privacy policy, and that’s exactly what she did\n\nI would be surprised if receptionist knew any better. International law degree with emphasis on privacy _in combination_ with setting up IT infrastructure is usually **not** a requirement for receptionist job title (nor for MD).\n\nYou mention GDPR; if you’re in EU, your doctor’s office should have a designated DPO (Data Protection Officer), and its contact is mandated to be listed. That is the person you should be contacting with your privacy concerns; not the receptionist or the medical doctor themselves (who _[hopefully]_ have a different field of expertise).\n\nPurpleDime:\n\n> What are the best arguments to make healthcare professionals care about privacy?\n\nFailing solving the issues with the DPO; report them for violations to your country Supervisory Authority according to art.77 of the GDPR.\n\nThen change the doctor, rinse & repeat until you get a good one – or you run out of doctors (in which case try not to get sick, or lower your privacy standards; whichever sounds less problematic).\n\nShall the SA also fail to address the privacy violations (or inform you of the resolution or progress within three months; you also have the _“Right to an effective judicial remedy against a supervisory authority”_ pursuant to Art. 78 of the GDPR.",
  "title": "How do I compellingly advocate for my privacy with doctors and other healthcare professionals?"
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