Air Force Tracks Dumped Records
by George Coryell and Vickie Chachere
Excerpt from The Tampa Tribune, July 16, 1999:p.5
Harvard Medical School Professor Harold J. Bursztajn, one of the nation's
leading advocates for more medical privacy, said the mishandling of the MacDill
records is a good example of what happens when patients aren't given control
of their own records. Bursztajn believes that doctors should keep the bare
minimum of records in their offices. The remainder of the material should
be sent home with the patient.
"Once you start collecting records, there is no fail-safe system," he
said.
