Thieves steal patient records, attempt to auction them
Compliance Monitor, April 12, 2006
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Thieves stole patient records from now-defunct Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts and posted them for sale on an Internet auction Web site, according to the Salem Evening News.
"You can see how the patience (sic) acted on a daily bases," read one item description. "See how violent the patience (sic) could be. You can see what kind and how much medication the patience (sic) were given to keep them under control," read another. Photos of the records showed a handwritten log of patients' names, prescription amounts, and physician notes, the News reports.
The state closed Danvers State Hospital in 1992 and recently sold the property to a developer, but patient records remain on the premises. The records concern mostly mentally ill patients who sought treatment at the hospital in the 1960s and 1970s. The Web site removed the records from sale after state inquiries, the News reports.
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