Bangkok Hospital Health Check Up Surprising Manner of Reporting

[venturalaw]

Having not undergone a complete physical for way too long I checked out what was available at Bangkok Hospital and Bumrungrad Hospital. I chose Bangkok Hospital because the tests offered met my criteria. Furthermore I have a friend that highly recommended Bangkok Hospital as he had recently undergone the same testing at said facility.

After most of the day spent being guided from test to test, I was provided a stack of photocopied results by a physician who reviewed the documents with me and stated that a formalized report would be mailed to my residence within the week.

The surprise is that after returning home and further studying the documents I realized the photocopies were on used paper which had other people's medical reports printed on the other side of the paper. Specifically on the opposite side of my "Eyes ExaminationRecord" was the "Geriatric Assessment Report" of a Thai individual of whom I have no connection and, I assume unknown to him, his information was provided to me. Across his report were a pen few lines indicating that the paper was to be considered scrap however the gentleman's personal information, i.e. name, photograph, date of birth, age, date of visit (which pre-dated my visit by 2 months) and noted allergies were clearly visible.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

[Tywais]

Not at a hospital, but not unheard of to get a form from immigration and on the back is a photocopy of someone's passport.

[Suradit69]

Most likely just a mistake by someone manning the photocopier rather than standard operating procedure.

I have occasionally printed something on my computer printer only to discover something was printed on the other side of one sheet. Apparently I unintentionally recycled a page when putting more paper in. Mistakes do happen. Not really a cause to generate yet another thread to excite the TIT cabal. Far worse mistakes happen in hospitals around the world ... which is why medical practice insurance costs an arm and a leg.

Edited October 21, 2013 by Suradit69

[venturalaw]

Most likely just a mistake by someone manning the photocopier rather than standard operating procedure.

I have occasionally printed something on my computer printer only to discover something was printed on the other side of one sheet. Apparently I unintentionally recycled a page when putting more paper in. Mistakes do happen. Not really a cause to generate yet another thread to excite the TIT cabal. Far worse mistakes happen in hospitals around the world ... which is why medical practice insurance costs an arm and a leg.

I am certain it was inadvertent. However a major hospital charged with patient privacy committing this error is not comparable to you mistakenly using recycled paper at your home, unless of course you customarily distribute confidential documents.

My design was not to "generate yet another thread to excite the TIT cabal". Just making people aware - nothing more than that.

Edited October 21, 2013 by venturalaw

[mrtoad]

Wouldn't think that their JCI accreditation would be impressed.

[Digitalbanana]

AT Bumrungrad Hospital they just email a PDF of the results.