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Hospital Workers Fired for Prying into Famous Patient's Files
Fifteen employees at the Bellflower, CA, branch of Kaiser Permanente hospital were fired in March for allegedly accessing information in the medical files of Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets earlier this year, and whose story has been the subject of intense media attention. The fired employees, as well as others who were disciplined but not dismissed, were apparently snooping into Suleman's records merely out of curiosity, and no personal information was leaked or sold to the media. The security breaches were discovered by the hospital's computer monitoring security system, which allowed administrators to see who had accessed the patient's files. The employees who had no medical need to look into those files were then identified and disciplined.
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