About 98% of hospitals has committed some form of medical malpractice. The major problem is when people start accepting this as acceptable behavior. There are multiple places where sharing information with advertisers should be greatly restricted, including hospital, lawyers, priests and so on. Government institutions like police emergency information centers should also avoid sharing data with advertisers, especially if that information get transported over the border.

Yes, people do bad decisions all the time. Hospitals are not perfect and mistakes happens. They should however not continue doing mistakes that harms patients.