[artplumber]

Someone please read the article.

The gist of the story is that the woman is suing the hosp to obtain information which may be privileged (because it entails the records of other patient(s)). The hospitals lawyers are, if anything, demanding a suit from the woman before releasing the information.

Of course, this is all due to lawyers anyway. Ones that wrote the laws like HIPAA, and others (hospital attys) who are trying to avoid being sued by the third party who's information will have to be given to this unfortunate lady.