Reply #24: this isn't that uncommon

[amazona]

I read some literature aimed at criminals from our whackjob libertarian friends at loompanics and it has been suggested on occasion that medical records are a great place to steal identities. They often have your social security, and this is, as they deem it, "the keys to the kingdom."

They should not allow social security numbers to be used on medical records for this very reason. Some clerks even sell copies of patient's files for a small fee to identity thieves.