Medical IDs were never a popular idea when they were first conceived, even while they can do potential good in making it easy to obtain a patient's medical information quickly (Peril). The idea is a good one in that it makes a patient's medical information readily available to doctors wherever the patient is when they are in need of treatment. Their whole records can be reviewed at once and in one place, listing allergies, medications etc., and they would know who to contact in an emergency. It makes the records portable when a patients changes jobs or insurers. But such computerized records are potentially open to wide abuses. We have only to look at the two recent cases of abuse of private data at Lexis-Nexis and ChoicePoint, Inc., where criminals
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