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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Law Firm Loses Hard Drive With Patient Records

Attorneys represent St. Joseph cardiologist sued for malpractice

A Baltimore law firm lost a portable hard drive containing information about its cases, including medical records for 161 stent patients suing cardiologist Dr. Mark G. Midei, a firm client, for alleged malpractice at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.

The drive was lost Aug. 4 by an employee of Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones who was traveling on the Baltimore light rail, according to a letter obtained by The Baltimore Sun that was sent to one of the stent patients last week — two months after the drive went missing.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good old lawyers , what a waste of humanity.

Anonymous said...

There is a chiropractic office right here in Salisbury that gave it's employees the computers from the office when they upgraded their system. They did this WITHOUT wiping the hard drives, just let them take the computers home "as-is" full of patient data. They have access to this information while at work, but now their families have access to it as well.