New York purchase highlights physician
Here's an unsettling piece of news for anyone who has ever bought a house.
A Mayo Clinic physician has made a condo purchase in New York. It's the kind of housing buy that happens every day in Rochester, and elsewhere, without much notice. But the price tag — $815,000 — doesn't always become so readily available publicly.
And the general public doesn't always get to look at how much physicians spend on housing.
The buyer is a physiatrist at Mayo in Rochester (name of the buyer archived by Pulse on Health).
Blockshopper has published online her purchase price, along with a link to her bio and the address of the condo (!). Aside from spilling the beans on the physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist's buy, one could wonder whether publishing the address of the condo could, in cases where someone might want to keep a purchase secret, be dangerous. For example, in a domestic violence situation, how would the person who is trying to escape feel if the address gets published?
Blockshopper is a media entity that wants "to be part of the 'next generation' of local media companies, taking local news gathering to an entirely new level," according to its Web site.
Rochester, Minnesota physicians, researchers and administrators shouldn't be surprised if their names get listed — along with the amount of money they've spent. Why? Blockshopper says it's expanding to new markets.
By Jeff Hansel, member Association of Health Care Journalists
Health Reporter for the Post-Bulletin newspaper, 18 1st Ave. S.E. in Rochester, Minnesota 55904
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