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NFL player's medical record leaked after amputation at Jackson Memorial Hospital

By The Miami Herald  
   July 10, 2015

When New York Giants pass rusher Jason Pierre-Paul injured his hand during a fireworks mishap over the Fourth of July weekend in South Florida, the star NFL player went to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Details of his stay at Miami-Dade's public hospital system were supposed to remain confidential under federal law, but now the world knows that Pierre-Paul, 26, had his right index finger amputated — courtesy of a cable TV network reporter who posted a picture of the NFL player's medical chart on Twitter. On Thursday, the hospital system's CEO announced an internal investigation into the leaked records.

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