Maybe a "come and get it" flag?
It's sad that someone would misuse personal information, but criminals exploit every opportunity.
- Jim
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- Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:28 pm
- Forum: New to CHL?
- Topic: CHL Death Question
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- Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:25 pm
- Forum: New to CHL?
- Topic: CHL Death Question
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Re: CHL Death Question
Welcome to the forum, and I'm sorry for the passing of your father.
You don't need to do anything with his CHL. A CHL is valid only for the person that it was issued to. It's not like a credit card that could be used by someone else.
You might want to cut it up or put it in a safe to prevent posthumous identity theft—which is a real phenomenon.
Though that gives me the opportunity to tell a story: Some years ago, the agency that licenses physicians in one of the states (California, maybe) decided to search their database the physician who had been practicing the longest. They found someone whose medical license had been in effect for about 100 years. When they inquired further, they found that the grandson of a physician, who was at that point long deceased, had taken over the practice and renewed the deceased physician's license for decades.
What may be surprising is that the bogus doctor's patients expressed great confidence and satisfaction with what he had done. Most medicine is routine. When he ran into something more complicated, like arthritis or cancer, he referred the patient to a specialist.
- Jim
You don't need to do anything with his CHL. A CHL is valid only for the person that it was issued to. It's not like a credit card that could be used by someone else.
You might want to cut it up or put it in a safe to prevent posthumous identity theft—which is a real phenomenon.
Though that gives me the opportunity to tell a story: Some years ago, the agency that licenses physicians in one of the states (California, maybe) decided to search their database the physician who had been practicing the longest. They found someone whose medical license had been in effect for about 100 years. When they inquired further, they found that the grandson of a physician, who was at that point long deceased, had taken over the practice and renewed the deceased physician's license for decades.
What may be surprising is that the bogus doctor's patients expressed great confidence and satisfaction with what he had done. Most medicine is routine. When he ran into something more complicated, like arthritis or cancer, he referred the patient to a specialist.
- Jim