Accodording to Lehto's Law, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtL2GI2hr8>,
an NHS facility mistakenly informed all its patients, by a no-reply text message, that they had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Oops!
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 15:41:30 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

Accodording to Lehto's Law, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtL2GI2hr8>,
an NHS facility mistakenly informed all its patients, by a no-reply text >message, that they had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Oops!

And, of course, no profit-making health facility has -ever- made a mistake
like that, have they?

No, it really, really, wasn't a good thing to do, and I hope that appropriate measures were taken, just as I'd hope they would be at a profit-making facility!

Alan Woodford, not expecting Keith to read this.

The Greying Lensman

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In article <5r16rh9pign864fr9s9ssin4pqi528dl47@4ax.com>,
alan@thewoodfords.uk (Alan Woodford) wrote:

And, of course, no profit-making health facility has -ever- made a
mistake
like that, have they?

Of course, what the UK news reports said was that it was GP's surgery,
but apparently, in the US, surgery is not used in the context of premises
used by a doctor for consultations, etc. (A patient going into hospital
for surgery is understood.)

Then there is the concept of an MP's surgery, where MPs can meet their constituents to discuss problems. When the MP Jo Cox was murdered at a
surgery back in 2016, Lynne Murphy on her Separated by a Common Language
blog said that many American friends asked her what that meant.

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