In an astonishing story, CNN claims that the famed Mayo clinic imprisoned an adult patient there against her will. In an unusual move, the patient's family signed a consent form for the hospital to respond without concern for HIPAA privacy protections, and even more unusually Mayo released a statement so scorching that it all but accused CNN of committing blood libel. CNN stood by it's story and claimed multiple Mayo spokespeople were shown to have no grasp on the details of the case, and spent an inordinate amount of time accusing Mayo of significant shadiness with whether a meeting was "on-the-record". But, as with so many problems in medicine, this situation too boils down to a failure to communicate on Mayo's part, and a failure to understand medicine on the part of CNN.
