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Abandoned medical records and their privacy implications made the news in two separate incidents over the past 10 days. One instance was in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, while the other was in the Canadian Province of Alberta. Common sense should tell all of us that this is not just a US or Canadian issue, and a quick search turned up incidents with a bankrupt contractor in an Australian amusement park, a closed Scottish hospital and several more situations in Illinois, California and North Carolina, in addition to the visual evidence below.

The most recent occurrence near Concord, Massachusetts surrounded Dr. Ronald T. Moody. He was evicted from his office in September after state regulators pursued him for practicing without a license. The patient records from Moody’s office in Acton, were scheduled for disposal in March, when an employee for the storage company holding the records contacted the state Board of Registration in Medicine. The Board did not have the authority, nor the budget to move, store, or notify the patients.

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