This Wednesday I was assigned a rather sensitive task: sorting papers for shredding. You don't understand how serious certain issues surrounding patient confidentiality are until you glimpse descriptions of actively occurring abuse.
The Montrose Counseling Center offers services in dealing with such issues as domestic violence among others. Domestic violence has many forms, but most commonly involves mental or physical abuse against a partner in a relationship. Other people can be quite... obsessive, and when someone comes to the MCC seeking help against such issues, the very fact that they visited has to be kept an absolute secret.
The MCC makes sure that every paper set up for disposal is checked and shredded if need be: should a crazed perpetrator of domestic abuse or some tabloid seeking dirt sift through the garbage and find a compromising piece of information on a client, their life could be endangered. If a paper has names, a written description, or any kind of information, it gets shredded. The MCC works to ensure that any unnecessary risks stop before they start.
As for the ongoing counseling chat project, school, car troubles, family in the hospital, and nosediving computers have put it on hold for the moment.
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