How Hospital ER Sleuths Race To Identify An Unconscious Or Dazed Jane Or John Doe

Lenh Vuong, a clinical social worker at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, checks on a former John Doe patient she recently helped identify.

A public hospital in Los Angeles gets over 1,000 unidentified patients a year. Most are quickly ID’d, but some require considerable gumshoe work — a task often complicated by medical privacy laws.

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Susan Abram