Legal Question in Administrative Law in Pennsylvania
Invasion of Privacy
I am in the Army (active duty)and went to the hospital for severe back pain.She gave me a note for two days off work. I lift substantially at work and knew 2 days would not be sufficient so I changed the slip to 6 days. (I know I shouldn't have!) My supervisor(also in the military) called and talked to the doctor that treated me and she told him what I was treated for,what time I was seen, and of course about the difference in days. Not withstanding my poor judgment about altering the doctors note, do I have an actionable claim for invasion of privacy?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Invasion of Privacy
Why do you want to do anything? What were the repercussions from your changing the doctors note?
If your supervisor noticed any discrepency in the doctor's note, that would be a basis for calling the doctor, because he had no other way to determine if the note was authentic, or had been altered. As it turns out, he was correct, you had altered the note.
You did wrong, you were caught. Learn, go forth and sin no more.
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