eli5 Why is our medical history so secretive but we know most medical diagnoses of celebrities, politicians, athletes etc…
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The one person who has full authority to release your medical information is you. If you tell someone you have a disease, you can’t sue them for knowing you have the disease. If you happen to give a press release about your illness, well, it’s public information.
Celebrities don’t always do it. For example, most people had no clue Chadwick Boseman was fighting disease. Bruce Willis just announced something he’s been fighting for years. I’m not sure many people knew Gilbert Gottfried had Muscular Dystrophy.
It’s just a subjective thing. Some people are very private about their personal life. Others like to announce everything. Sometimes it might be to try and control gossip about why they’re not in the public eye anymore. For some reason people think it’s creepy to take pictures of a cancer patient *unless* they’re a celebrity who hasn’t been public about why they canceled a role.
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