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FL: Discarded medical records found unsecured at public landfill

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Dissent

Trevor Pettiford reports that discarded medical records were found unsecured at a county landfill facility in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The records, complete with names, addresses, and family histories, were discovered by a man dumping bulk trash at the Pinellas County Solid Waste facility at 3095 114th Avenue North in St. Petersburg. They apparently came from the office of a now-retired doctor whose practice, Doctor’s Urgent Care Walk-In Clinic in St. Petersburg, closed a year ago.

Read more on KITV.


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