I was surfing around this morning and on one of my typical reads found this.
Apparently, many states are allowing police officers to take blood samples of people they suspect of drunk driving. I randomly googled such instances and found this:
The ways in which blood is drawn vary considerably. Under one common scenario, drivers are stopped by police and asked to perform a field sobriety test. If they fail this, they are taken to a medical facility, such as a hospital, and blood is drawn there.
Problems with this are not limited to but include that doctors feel they are violating not only the Hippocratic Oath (do no harm, essentially) but also violating doctor/patient privilege.
The law, however, has an exception for certain "disclosures for law-enforcement purposes."
Of course it does. There are all kinds of laws that remove our rights!
The blog I linked first says that some states are even allowing police officers to draw the blood themselves. I didn't see proof of that in anything I immediately looked at but can you imagine the possible consequences if that is true? Let's see....risk of innumerable infections, damage to your veins, unsanitary conditions...think about it. You're on the side of the road and someone is jabbing you with a needle? Additionally, the blog says that in some states, officers can stop anyone---including people who aren't even breaking laws...How can this be America?
This has got to be one of the scariest things I've read about.
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