So when you give all your contact information to medical facility ... in that small fine print you don't read there is likely some prhase in there along the lines of "we reserve the right to provide your information to other medical parteners". Those "medical parteners" could be other hospitals, medical device makers, or lucrative medical departments within the hospitals reach.
Even worse, if there is no terms that you agreed to before you gave up all your information, then they can just do whatever they want with it.
OBGYNs are one of those lucrative departments for women in particular. That's the department that does cervical cancer screenings.
In general, there has been a large push for cervical cancer screenings recently (last 5 years or so) and also for the HPV vaccine.
So when you give all your contact information to medical facility ... in that small fine print you don't read there is likely some prhase in there along the lines of "we reserve the right to provide your information to other medical parteners". Those "medical parteners" could be other hospitals, medical device makers, or lucrative medical departments within the hospitals reach.
Even worse, if there is no terms that you agreed to before you gave up all your information, then they can just do whatever they want with it.
OBGYNs are one of those lucrative departments for women in particular. That's the department that does cervical cancer screenings.
In general, there has been a large push for cervical cancer screenings recently (last 5 years or so) and also for the HPV vaccine.