Legaly the hospital is in a lot of trouble for loseing records, one of the main points of HIPPA is that records must be quickly retrevable...if this is not true you are in violation of federal law.

There are some legal protections that come with being a licensed doctor, unless it can be shown that the doctor acted knowinly and malliciously the worst that can happen to him is a malpractise suite and poss loss/suspension of license.