Question: Edwin and Fred both work for Dr. Gelman, a local infectious disease specialist.Edwin's job is to make sure all patients have been entered and updated

Edwin and Fred both work for Dr. Gelman, a local infectious disease specialist.Edwin's job is to make sure all patients have been entered and updated in the system and Fred's job is to check the accuracy of each patient's diagnosis by cross-checking the data with another source.Suppose Edwin discovers that one of the patients is his old law teacher Professor Hall so he enters Hall's patient records and discovers that Hall has venereal disease.Edwin does not tell anyone.The next day, Fred makes the same discovery but proceeds to tell ten other people what he has discovered.Hall wants to either sue for defamation or for something else. What advice do you give Hall and why?

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