2-3-4 Challenge Book Discussions #2 discussion

Willis Cogburn is a contract killer working for The Landry’s. He enters the hospital in disguise and pumps hospital employees for information to learn Ellie’s identity. In a matter of minutes, he has all the information he needs. How realistic is this? Do you think hospital employees today would be so careless, so easily pulled into discussing a coworker with a stranger? Why or why not?

I sincerely hope this is total fiction.

Not if they want to keep their jobs. Privacy is stressed to everyone from the top down to volunteers. Once two healthcare professionals were discussing a patient's treatment in an elevator unaware that a relative was in the elevator too. They were both reprimanded and suspended for a month. This was twenty years ago.

I certainly hope it does not reflect today's situation.

This circumstance had the whole town involved in gossip about the Bonnie and Clyde type of criminals, and tongues were loosened. I certainly hope that today's hospital workers would have been called into a meeting (even) to be warned ahead of time how dangerous the conditions could be for anyone perceived to have witnessed the crime.