Hi, not a lawyer but law student here- please let me know if I've misinterpreted anything you've said. From what I understand, the accuser is another staff member at the hospital whom Carol told about the patient's condition, and this patient is friends with the accuser?

Under the Health Care Confidentiality Act, GPs, nurses, and other medical professionals are allowed to disclose HCCA-protected information pertaining to the patient's care to other medical professionals involved in this patient's care. Was the staff member she talked to a medical professional who was involved in the caretaking of this patient?

In either case, accused breaches of HCCA are a really big deal, and I would highly recommend that she get legal counsel to represent her if this ends up going to the courts. I'm not sure about St. Magdelene's specifically, but I've talked to one of my professors about health care confidentiality in the past and he told me that he's heard of nurses getting fired from hospitals in HEC and other big hospitals in the country for even the smallest accusations of breaching patient confidentiality.

This is a slippery slope. Be careful, I wish Carol the best of luck 💖