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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “What in the world can you do if information that is true and will forever be true about your medical condition is out…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2009
What in the world can you do if information that is true and will forever be true about your medical condition is out there?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions the consequences of leaked medical information.

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