As the national media has been reporting, Rush Limbaugh was stopped at a Florida airport and briefly detained for having Viagra in his carry-on luggage. The problem that the inspectors had was that Limbaugh's name wasn't on the bottle; the doctor's name was. According to news reports, doctors sometimes do this to protect a person's privacy as Viagra has only one function.
The question I have is this: why was this information released to the media? Viagra falls under a person's medical privacy rights and the media gleefully splashed it all over their news reports and web sites.
Even celebrities have medical confidentiality rights and the airport and the media stomped all over Limbaugh's.
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