Health Privacy Quotes

If Facebook owns social, if LinkedIn owns business, who owns your health?

It wasn't very long ago when you wouldn't even think about there being health information on the smartphone. There's financial information. There's your conversations; there's business secrets. There's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home.

Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.

Honestly, I'd rather not talk about my health.

I know of a few actors who have Psoriasis but stay mum about it. I don't respond to those who do. I just smile and move on.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. 'How are you' is a greeting, not a question.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

I have successfully dealt with my dependence and my chronic pain issues. I ask that my privacy and that of my family be respected on this health issue.

My health is no one's business.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

You may be faced with some difficult choices within the next decade: Do you want to receive potentially alarming news about your cognitive health, or would you rather not? If you learn that you have a high risk for Alzheimer’s, is that information you will want to keep private — from employers, clients, health insurers and others? Or will you want to openly embrace it as part of your identity and publicly advocate for a cure?