A patient has taken to social media to share her uncomfortable experience at a clinic in Kuantan, where she claimed a doctor used her personal information to text her after the appointment.
According to the patient’s post on Threads, she went for a swab test last Saturday after showing flu symptoms.
She said the service at the clinic was fine until she started receiving unexpected messages from a doctor.
From follow-up texts to personal questions
At first, the messages seemed like standard medical follow-ups, asking how she was doing and whether her symptoms had improved.
However, the tone soon shifted, with the doctor beginning to ask unrelated personal questions, including if she had a boyfriend, and even hinted at not wanting to upset him.
“Didn’t realise my visit came with a free text from the doctor package,” the OP wrote in her post, expressing her disbelief at how her medical visit turned into a personal chat initiated by a stranger.
When the OP asked the sender if he was the same doctor who treated her, he denied it and claimed to be another doctor.
This raised more questions for her, prompting her to inquire how he got her contact details in the first place. However, the doctor didn’t reply.
Netizens express concern over privacy
The post gained traction quickly, with many users expressing shock and calling for stricter patient data protection.
Others also suspected that the sender himself wasn’t a doctor and speculated that he could have been a medical staff member instead.
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