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You’ve probably heard of HIPAA — the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — which aims to ensure the privacy of patients at hospitals and other healthcare settings. Basically, the idea is that nobody should see your private health information except for the people who need to (i.e. your doctor). Designer491 / Getty Images Recently, Redditor u/un_occupied asked, “Healthcare workers …

“When I was in RN school, one of my classmates was assigned a female patient who had a stage 4 pressure ulcer on her coccyx — this was down to the bone and really awful looking. The wound care team had taken a photo of it, and that photo was in the patient’s chart. My classmate removed the photo from …