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Can a gynocologist tell your parents in florida if your a virgin?

Florida

In Florida can your gynocologist tell your parents without your permission you are not a virgin and had sex if your are between the ages of 14 or 15?

This would depend on a few factors. If you went to a facility alone and you were checked or treated for an STD, your information regarding the visit and all medical treatment is to remain confidential.

Florida Statute Title XXIX Chapter 384 Sexually Transmissible Diseases Section 384.30 Minor's consent to treatment, the fact of consultation, examination, and treatment of a minor for a sexually transmissible disease is confidential and exempt from the provisions of 119.07.

Otherwise,

Parents generally have the right to make health care decisions for their children and so are by default considered the personal representatives for decisions about protected health information (PHI) access, use and disclosure for unemancipated minors. However, minors as they grow older have varying degrees of "emancipation" for health care decision-making, and so, with that, comes control over PHI associated with those decisions

As in many other states, Florida gives special statutory attention to the matter of minors' abortions. Under the Parental Notice of Abortion Act, a termination of pregnancy may not be performed or induced on a minor unless notice has been provided to at least one parent, or to the minor's legal guardian, at least 48 hours in advance. (390.01115)

Divorced parents have full rights to access their minor child's health records, and to communicate with the child's health care providers, even if they are not the primary residential parent, unless a court order has specifically revoked or limited those rights. (61.13)

One parent cannot block another's access, absent such an order. However, as always, if the minor has the right to seek treatment without parental consent, he/she can block the access of either/both parent(s) to the health information associated with the decision. (61.13)

Extended family members who have temporary legal custody of a minor child -- or the putative father that has physical custody -- may obtain access to and secure copies of the minor's medical, dental and psychiatric records. Again, if the minor has the right to seek treatment without parental consent, he/she can block this access too. (751.01)

Sources:
Florida Statutes [1]
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Minors, privacy rights of Florida. [2]
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Minors, privacy rights of HIPAA [3]
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine preemtion, overview Florida [4]



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