TheMeInTeam
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The way it is normally done in the UK is you know when it matters if someone is pregnant and when such comes up you tell the patient and then ask.
don't know how much it happens in uk, but in usa it's not uncommon for patients to have multiple physicians and staff working with/for them. having details, even details that should be fairly obvious, missed is a too-common form of malpractice. hospitals can straight up lose track of where their patients are physically located in the building for non-trivial periods of time. in that context, it's a better idea to have relevant data about the patient in the chart than having the possibility that important details like this are missed internally.
what i'm not okay with is government randomly violating hipaa/taking the information for itself. though i don't know what rights people in poland have, i would expect they have at least something similar to hipaa there.