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Editor's note: We have all known many occasions in which reasonable
people can reach divergent conclusions from the same set of facts.
It doesn't necessarily mean that one side is "right" and
the other "wrong." It means that there is more than one
viewpoint.
The expression, "point of view," indicates that the view
in question originates from a particular point of observation. In
a two-dimensional world there would be 360 points (or degrees) from
which to observe; in our three-dimensional world we often are confronted
with far more than 360 opinions on any given subject.
A case in point: The recently enacted federal rules to maintain
the privacy of medical records.
On this page you will find an article prepared for AASCIF's National
Issues Committee. It was principally written by Charles Savage,
assistant chief counsel for civil litigation at the State Compensation
Insurance Fund of California, in cooperation with William Carney
of the Pennsylvania State Workers' Insurance Fund, both of whom
are members of the committee. Suzanne Mager, the third committee
member working on this project, shared the draft article with Loris
Gies of Washington's Department of Labor and Industries, who has
also studied the new regulations. Ms. Gries disagreed with several
points in the article; her own essay is on page 15.
To facilitate further discussion of this important issue, AASCIF
News is devoting extra space in this edition in order to print both
articles. We do this because the regulations could potentially have
a substantial impact on the operations of every U.S. member of AASCIF.
As is often the case, the courts will probably provide clarifications
where necessary.
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