You are the director of HIM in a small community hospital. One day, an en
the incomplete file area comes to you with a coat. One of the physicians left it in the
dictation room, but the employee does not know to whom it belongs. You decide to
look in the pockets of the coat to see whether any identification is present. You find
in one of the pockets a prescription bottle of Antabuse (disulfiram), a medication given
to alcoholics to help them stop drinking. The patient named on the bottle is a physician
at your facility. What should you do with this information? What are the confidentiality
issues? Should you have handled this situation differently?