"HIV patients sue after records lost; Hospital worker left files on MBTA" by Elizabeth Cooney, Globe Correspondent | May 21, 2009
Four HIV-positive patients whose records were left behind on an MBTA train by a Massachusetts General Hospital employee are suing the hospital, contending their privacy was breached.
But the state has to crawl up your ass and load databases with your s***.
In March, the hospital notified 66 patients who received care at its Infectious Disease Associates outpatient practice that billing records bearing their names, Social Security numbers, doctors, and diagnoses had been lost by a manager who was riding the Red Line. She had brought the paperwork home for the weekend, but left it on the train when she returned to work Monday morning, March 9, according to a hospital security report.
Smells like ID THEFT!
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Several patients have contacted the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders with concerns about the lost records....
Now you're in trouble!
GLAD and three other groups - the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Justice Resource Institute Health, and the Health Law Clinic of the Legal Services Center at Harvard Law School - are trying to arrange a meeting with Mass. General to discuss ways to protect patient privacy....
Everybody's should be protected, not just gays!
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