For this reason I refuse to give out my ss#. If they insist go to another Dr.

Also it is a good idea to freeze your credit with Experian, Trans Union and Equifax permanently. It costs $5 to unfreeze for a time window of your choice if you want to get credit card/ car loan etc and it is worth the small cost. After the freeze you don't need no lifelock etc protection nonsense.

A storage shed really !!!

The good doctor is an idiot when is comes to document security and the storage of personal data - The good doctor should be fined for stupidity.

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http://patients.about.com/od/costscon ... /f/doctorsrequestssns.htm

cheap ass should have paid up and stored the records in a secure site.

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Why would you give your SS# to the doctor? I have never done that.

Patrick Villanova | The Jersey Journal

Thousands of patients of a Jersey City doctor are vulnerable to identity theft after police say their medical records were stolen from a storage shed at the doctor's office earlier this week.

Dr. Nisar A. Quraishi, an internist with an office at 1 Chopin Court, told police Tuesday night that he was contacted by a resident of the neighborhood and notified that his storage shed door was open, according to a police report.

Quraishi arrived at his office at 5 p.m. Tuesday and found that both latches on the shed door had been cut with an unknown cutting tool. When he entered the shed, Quraishi immediately noticed all of the medical records of patients he had treated between 1982 and 2009 -- and may still be treating -- had been stolen, the report stated.

Quraishi told police the majority of the records contained personal information, including social security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and medical histories of each patient, according to the report.

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