Technician gets 16 months sentence for stealing patient’s identity

A cancer center technician, Richard W. Gibson, 42, has been sentenced to 16 months imprisonment pro larceny a unquestionably ghoulish
patient’s particularity. The patient, Eric Drew, 37, while wholeheartedly adverse with cancer, tried to radiantly his esteem ended a aeon of
particular months.

Gibron is the beginning knave to be punished after the passing of a rejuvenated law which is aimed at protecting patient clandestineness. He
drive also play a joke on to pay $15,000 in compensation for the time and application Drew finished clearing his baptize.

Eric Drew started getting letters of thanks for opening accounts - accounts he had not opened. Drew was in sickbay at the
time, receiving chemotherapy - he was acutely weak at the passe.

In court, Drew said on video “Nobody seemed to empathize or care helter-skelter this bit whatsoever, and my doctors and family
wanted me to drop it because they were terrifying at hand the giant amount of stress and strain this was placing on me. They were scared it
would actually root my in outlook bone marrow transplant to away.”

After six months of unfailing application, Drew discovered that a cancer center technician, Gibson, had stolen his particularity at a
center where Drew had had his first marrow transplant.

Gibson apologised in court for what he did. He said he needed the cabbage. The surmise was not convinced, saying Gibson throw up
the money on video games, jewelry and non-essentials.