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back in the early 1990s. They took patient privacy very seriously, but some of their competitors really didn't. I was always amazed at "dumpster diving" stories that popped up every few months. Many were clear fabrications, but I can remember a few where criminal charges were pursued. The company I was at had its own incinerator, so nothing with patient or doctor identifiable information was ever discarded without being turned to ash first. If something like that wound up in a trash container headed for the dumpster and was discovered, somebody was almost certainly going to get fired.
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