Well, at least you admit you'd be curious. It seems JimNoble wouldn't be interested in the least and I find that odd. That's my only point.
It's not that I wouldn't find it interesting that the POTUS was born in my hospital when I was catching babies there - I would.
But since then (1975) I have seen 10 000+ patients. If I had been practicing in 1961, that number would be 20-25 000.
I know that on television, the doctors always remember everybody. In real life, we don't.
Yes, I delivered white trash mamas with mixed-race babies - lots of 'em. Could I tell you any of their names, 35 years and 10 000+ patients later? No chance.
Now, suppose I were "interested in the least" and I wanted to find out IF I was involved in the delivery of a specific infant 35 - OK, fifty - years ago. But I can't look at the BC to see if I signed it.
How would you imagine I could go about that? I can't walk into the hospital and ask to see the records - all records before 1986 have been destroyed (in NY, I don't know about Hawaii). Even if there were a record, I have no right to see it without a release unless I happen to still be practicing on the active staff AND have a patient-care-related need for access.
There is no practical way for me to satisfy any curiosity I might have, and, that being so, it would be an enormous waste of time, a commodity which I still don't have enough of, 35 years into the doctor gig.
You claim I haven't the slightest interest in the names and current whereabouts of babies I delivered in 1975. I'm telling you that, even if I did, it would make no difference.