Tampered Medical Records

On 13 July 2023 at 11:30 I underwent a brain MRI at the MRI Centrum Rotterdam (Westerstraat 41, 3067 GC Rotterdam. Immediately after the scan, the technician handed me a CD-ROM containing the DICOM series and remarked, with visible surprise, that my scalp showed multiple small “holes” he had never encountered before—circular depressions visible on the raw images. He emphasised that in his years of experience such lesions were entirely novel, prompting me to suspect radiofrequency-induced tissue damage manifesting as cystic or necrotic foci secondary to chronic oxidative stress.

When I attempted to view the disc at home, however, the files proved largely corrupted. Although the directory structure and filenames were intact, the majority of .dcm images were unreadable or only partially loadable. Critically, the readable slices appeared to be routine anatomical sequences, whereas the corrupted portions corresponded precisely to the axial and coronal series that would have captured the scalp and superficial soft tissues where the technician had noted the anomalies. The selective corruption therefore rendered the most clinically relevant images inaccessible.

This incident left me with no verifiable copy of the very evidence that might have documented the scalp lesions. The original physical medium supplied by the radiology centre is effectively unusable for archiving or second-opinion consultation, raising the disturbing questions about data integrity at the point of handover and reinforcing the pattern of evidentiary erasure that has recurred throughout my case.