SMS snafu by UK medics sends out a Christmas message telling patients they've got metastatic cancer
Askern Medical Practice, a general practitioner surgery based in Doncaster, UK, managed to muddle its Christmas holiday message to patients by texting them they'd been diagnosed with"aggressive lung cancer with metastases."
The message went out to patients of the medical facility – there are reportedly about 8,000 of them – on December 23, 2022. It asked patients to fill out, which is used to help terminal patients expedite access to benefits because they may not have time for the usual bureaucratic delay. About an hour after thoroughly alarming recipients of the not-so-glad tidings, the medical facility reportedly apologized in a follow-up text message.."This has been sent in error. Our message to you should have read, 'We wish you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.' In case of emergency please contact NHS 111.
The surgery characterized the errant text message as both an administrative error and a computer-related error, without clarifying just how the mistake occurred.
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