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Unironically, anything you tell a doctor can be used against you in court. I have been on two civil juries and in both cases the defense attorneys basically just read a bunch of tangentially related embarrassing medical records for seemingly no reason besides embarrassing the person their client injured.
What about doctor-patient privilege, does that not exist anymore?
Admittedly, it wouldn't apply in this case since the person posted it to Twitter, but I mean in general.
Yes not many people realize that medical records can be subpoenad.
From Wikpedia:
What am I missing here? Clearly both cannot be true at the same time.
EDIT: nevermind, I found the answer further down on the page:
US fed doesn't recognize basic ethics laws, how unsurprising
A boring dystopia
But the types of cases are different. Civil cases are state cases and handle harm, murder, etc. Federal cases are often not about these types of things at all and are about businesses that operate in multiple states (because they may operate differently according to the state constitutions)
Edit: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/types-cases
It says that they preside over Constitutional cases