Dental Records

I am a 56 year old dentist who sold my practice in 2009, all my patients continue to see me at the practice where I work as an associate about a mile away from the old practice. The old practice is an unoccupied unit on the first floor of a busy shopping centre. After all the equipment was moved out there was an electrical problem with the fuse blowing at the local sub-station. This happened several times and each time I had to attend the premises until the engineer had repaired the fuse, none of the attending engineers could explain why the fuse kept blowing. One day in December 2009 I went along to the premises as the power had gone off again and I was waiting for the enineer to return with my dental nurse, it was bitterly cold and a lady walked along and asked me if this was the dental surgery. I replied in the affirmative and told her that I had moved and gave her details of my new location. She told me her husband was coming home (he is a seaman) and had tootache and wanted to see me urgently. I said I would see him the day he got back. The power was restored and my nurse and myself went nto the premises. I went into a cupboard and found four patients record cards that had not been put into storage with the other 10,000, the one at the top was the patients whose wife I had spoken to five minutes previously. The fuse in the sub-station has never blown since.