Dr.'s have no obligation to keep working if they no longer want to (who wants to be treated by a doc who doesn't really want to be there?).
But they most definitely DO have a moral and ethical obligation to make the medical records of current and former patients available to those who might want them. And for a reasonable period of time (at least a year, IMHO).
Any doctor who does not fulfill this obligation may not have been as great as others thought he was.
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