A U.K. medical office mistakenly sent patients a text message with a cancer diagnosis

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A man walks past a National Health Service sign in 2007 in London. The NHS offers services at the Askern Medical Practice in Doncaster, whose patients mistakenly received text messages informing them of a terminal cancer diagnosis. Cate Gillon/Getty Images

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Carl Chegwin was getting in the holiday spirit by watching the movie The Santa Clause on Christmas Eve when he says he got a text message from his U.K. doctor’s office diagnosing him with “aggressive lung cancer.”

He sat there in

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