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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
All these large-scale "authorities" aside - the tests she underwent were medical.
The DOCTORS gave information to someone other than the PATIENT *FIRST*.
I don't care about the ASA, the IAAF, or the press (in South Africa or elsewhere). The DOCTORS need to be...well, I have unwise words to finish that sentence.
The *patient* wasn't informed *first* - the rest is crappy frosting on an already-inexcusable cake.
What SH Said.
It doesn't look like the doctors had contact with the patient after testing. My guess is they were doing the testing for the IAAF and the results went there. If Caster were having her own tests the results would have gone to her first.
I am not clear on where doctor/patient confidentiality goes sometimes, but that's how it always seems to go for athletic testing. To the governing organisation first.
Is LJ horrendously slow for anyone else?
Yep.
Is LJ horrendously slow for anyone else?
Me.
My guess is they were doing the testing for the IAAF and the results went there.
Yeah. I mean, when you do drug testing before starting a job, it's not you they come back to, it's the company.
I mean, when you do drug testing before starting a job, it's not you they come back to, it's the company.
...not in my experience. I was notified first, and also informed that as per the release I signed, my results were also being sent to my employer. But I was told *first*.
I was notified first, and also informed that as per the release I signed, my results were also being sent to my employer. But I was told *first*.
Not when I was tested.
But we're applying American law and practice on an international case. Not that I think it's right, mind you, because it's an epic fail, IMO, but I'm wondering how the laws/practices differ.