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of the medical records kept by the facility. Actually because we were supposed to furnish personal medical information, the facility was compelled by law to keep it confidential. This law which really exists was well intended, but like any other law left to the bureaucracy turned into a chaos that no one really understands or cares about. In this particular case, I was consenting that all my confidential information was going to be furnished to the probation agent. The government in its proverbial wisdom decided that a probation agent, who usually takes a few credits at a community college is entitled to know my medical records... Another release dealt with the group. This anger management was going to be discussed into a group of strangers. I am not the type, but it seems that most of the people feel better if they clean their dirty laundry in public... I don't remember all the lines from the form, except for two. I was supposed to consent that I had to keep the privacy of the group members, and that I was not going to talk about what was discussed outside of the group. In other words, if I met one of them while strolling the mall with my wife and we exchanged greetings, if my wife asked me who the person was I was supposed to let her know that the answer was classified and that was it.

I refused to sign those two lines. Than I had to fill in a anger evaluation. I remember that in one of the classes in Industrial Psychology the teacher showed us a similar form to make sure that we never design one of them. I don't remember how many there were, however the assumption was that who was filling them, had to admit that he or she had some anger issues. All the questions were supposed to be answered in yes or no, however a person who was not angry or did not experienced anger could have not properly given an answer. So when I ran into one of those impossible questions, I skipped them. And little by little it took me a while to read the ten or so pages and to fill in the blanks.

Than I was taken by the intake person who happened to be the person in charge of the classes. She had a bad cold and of course she was not in the best of her moods. Besides, at first she was on her guards, because let's face it, in spite of the fact that we were about the same age, she was black and I was white. I realized her attitude, and I was waiting for a point to break the chill in the air. It came when she made it to the line in the form where I filled "human being" to the race question.

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