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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, July 21, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Hospital worker violated law by reading husband’s records FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: “Concerned in needs addressing — such as why Massachusetts” (Feb. 20) used her there are weeks between sexual status as a hospital employee to contact with her husband. access her husband’s medical records It’s ironic that she’s bent out of and found a history of STDs. I’m a shape over in¿delity concerns, but registered nurse with 40 years’ expe- thinks it acceptable to betray the rience. Every healthcare organization privacy and ethics rules governing I know of teaches all their employees medical professionals. — Vincent In about HIPAA violations and that West Virginia Jeanne accessing private patient medical Phillips Dear Abby: “Young at Heart in information is a criminal offense. It Texas” (Feb. 9) could have written Advice is essential that patients know they my story. I am also a 70-year-old can trust us to protect their privacy. man who is sexually dysfunctional. I, :e have speci¿c policies against using too, was lonely, having outlived two of my one’s employee status to access a relative’s brides. However, I did ¿nd someone who medical information. appreciates holding hands and whispering “Concerned” is lucky she still has a job. At sweet words without more physical contact. my institution, she would be terminated for Abby, you said: “Not only do I think you violating organizational policy and federal can (¿nd companionship), I suspect you may law. She wouldn’t have to worry about how need police protection to control the crowd of to broach the subject with her husband; she’d applicants. Years ago, my aunt, the late Ann be explaining why she was ¿red. He may Landers, polled her female readers asking if not be a saint, but neither is she. Her actions they would prefer ‘holding and cuddling’ to were unacceptable and reÀect a clear lack of actually doing ‘the deed.’ The majority of integrity and honesty. — Safeguarding The them answered in the af¿rmative.” Right To Privacy My ¿rst wife died of a heart attack after Dear Safeguarding: Thank you for 30 years of marriage. My second wife died your informed response. You are not the after eight years of marriage, of kidney only reader who was appalled at what cancer. At 71, I married my third wife, a “Concerned” had done. Read on: wonderful woman just as you both describe. Dear Abby: Like “Concerned’s” husband, She was my next-door neighbor. We have I, too, am labeled as high risk for STDs based been married three years and nine months. on a medical survey I completed, although (The Bible says, “Love thy neighbor,” so I I have had a monogamous 30-year marriage married her!) We also enjoy cuddling, even and do not do drugs of any kind. In that without doing “the deed.” survey, they asked how many partners I had So I say to “Young at Heart in Texas”: in my lifetime. Those few other partners YES, you can ¿nd a woman such as you and were before I met my wife. Abby describe. And when you do, I suggest “Concerned” indicated that her husband you rub her back often. Women love it! — had been treated twice for STDs “some years Young At Heart In Colorado back.” What does that mean? Were they Dear Young At Heart: I’m glad your married then? If not, is he labeled high risk story had a happy ending, and I’m crossing due to his previous behavior? Perhaps there my ¿ngers that “Young at Heart’s” will, too. is something deeper in the relationship that Thanks for writing to encourage him. DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 20-21, 1915 Pendleton’s ¿ne new 10,000 public natatorium will be formally dedicated Friday evening of this week, just a year from the date when the ¿rst agitation for such an institution was started. The dedicatory exercises will consist of the presentation of the natatorium to the city, acceptance by the city authorities, an exhibition of fancy swimming and diving, swimming contests and an inspection of the pool and dressing rooms by the public. The committee has not yet prepared the formal rules and regulations which will govern the pool. In all probability, however, one or two afternoons a week will be designated as ladies’ day and upon these afternoons the ladies will have exclusive use of the pool. Probably one afternoon for a two-hour period will be reserved for private bathing parties as a means of securing revenue for the maintenance and upkeep. The evenings and other afternoons will ¿nd the pool open to the general public. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 20-21, 1965 The entire area was in the grip of really unusual weather today with snow falling at Desolation Butte and Tower Mountain back of Ukiah, and soaking rain occurring at the lower elevations, according to the local station THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Below normal temperatures are expected to continue the remainder of the week although a warming trend is forecast. Some showery periods will occur, the prediction said. Pendleton’s hottest average period is from July 21 to July 26, but it’s different this year. The mean here yesterday was 62 degrees, which was 12 degrees below normal, and the high of 67 was eight degrees below the normal mean of 75. At mid-morning today the mercury was 55 above, the month’s average rainfall already had been reached and more was in prospect. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 20-21, 1990 Indian elders will install Carl Donald Sampson as the selected hereditary head chief of the Walla Walla tribe in the longhouse at Mission Saturday morning. The Wallalapums, who are now referred to as the Walla Wallas, have been without a chief for more than 20 years, since the death of Jack Abraham, Sampson’s uncle. Sampson was given the Indian name of Peo Peo Mox Mox, after his great-grandfather, who served the Walla Wallas as chief until his death in 1855. Samp- son’s grandfather, Homily, was the direct hereditary chief when Peo Peo Mox Mox was killed. Homily passed the chieftainship to Jim Kanine, who held the position until the early 1950s. Kanine’s successor, Abraham, served more than 10 years before he died. Today is the 202nd day of 2015. There are 163 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 21, 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later over- turned on a technicality.) On this date: In 1773, Pope Clement XIV issued an order suppressing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits. (The Society was restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814.) In 1861, during the Civil War, the ¿rst Battle STONE SOUP BIG NATE of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Virginia, resulting in a Confederate victory. In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). In 1949, the U.S. Senate rati¿ed the North Atlantic Treaty. In 1972, the Irish Republican Army carried out 22 bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what became known as “Bloody Friday.” In 1980, draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Kay Starr is 93. Movie director Norman Jewison is 89. Former Attorney General Janet Reno is 77. Actress Patricia Elliott is 73. Actor David Downing is 72. Actor Leigh Lawson is 72. Actor Wendell Burton is 68. Singer Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) is 67. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is 67. Actor Jamey Sheridan is 64. Rock singer-musician Eric Bazilian (The Hooters) is 62. Comedian Jon Lovitz is 58. Rock musician Will Berman (MGMT) is 33. Thought for Today: “We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” — Abigail Adams, American ¿rsW lad\ . BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
