Dr. Nancy Baxter, St. Michael's Hospital (IMAGE)

St. Michael's Hospital

Dr. Nancy Baxter, St. Michael's Hospital

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After collecting nearly 600 kilograms of papers from recycling bins at five Toronto hospitals, researchers at St. Michael's Hospital found 2,687 documents containing personal health or other information that should instead have been shredded. Pictured here is lead author Dr. Nancy Baxter, chief of the General Surgery Department at St. Michael's Hospital.

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