Asheville Head, Neck & Ear Surgeons Patients' Medical Info Fell Onto Street

Hundreds of old phone records from Asheville (N.C.) Head, Neck & Ear Surgeons fell from a truck onto a downtown street, according to a Citizen-Times report.

A pickup truck was transporting boxes of phone records to a shredder when one box fell. The documents included patients' phone numbers, dates of birth, patient account numbers, medical complaints and prescription drug information.

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