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[camwyn]

Today on People Are Looking For That, a long-running if irregular series:

MRN, as it happens, stands for 'medical records number'.

If Massachusetts General Hospital issues you a blue plastic card with your MRN on it, you should really keep track of it, and you should definitely make sure it's in your possession when you leave the subway system.

I'll be bringing the one I found yesterday back to MGH at lunch today. There's other personally identifiable information on that card and I don't think anyone wants it going astray.

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[delight]

One of my favorite series on DW! Uh, on the other hand, why have you now found medical records twice. That is concerning, folks.

Certainly better than more than twice but.

[camwyn]

Based on what little I feel free to say about what I saw before contacting the medical organizations involved, the actual papers were probably dropped by people who weren't in the clearest/most perceptive mental states at the time.

The most recent find has no such information on it but this is the second time I've found medically related cards in the subway system (the one prior to this was a health insurance wallet card, I don't know if I mentioned it here). This one was right near a turnstile so I'm guessing it fell out when someone was reaching for their Charlie card, and just didn't get noticed. The insurance card was at the bottom of an escalator in a Red Line station so I have no clue how that one went missing.