PCOS Messages for September, 2001: Re: My rights to my medical records?

Re: My rights to my medical records?

From: Renee (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:03:51 -0700

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That is your chart, and you have rights to it. The hang up about faxing might be for patient privacy. They don't have a guarantee that you are the person requesting it, and that you will be the one receiving it. If you either send a letter asking them to mail it to you, or go in in person, you should be able to get it.

Many health professionals get squeemish about patients seeing the charts because some people aren't always tactful about what they write. Or, they write lengthy explanations about why something is happening, and some factors may be due to the patient's actions or status (which is often true). However, you have a right to your chart. You may just have to be assertive and assure them that it is you requesting it, not someone else posing as you.

I've never had a problem getting my records if I asked for them while I was in my appointment, or signed a medical record release form to have them copy and mail to me later.

Renee

Chris wrote: >
> Hi Ladies-
>
> Just wondering if any of you have any info about what kind of rights
> patients have to their own medical records. I have an endo appointment
> in November and asked for my doc to fax me my chart...they told me
> they'd send it directly to the endo instead, they don't fax records
> directly to patients. Do I have a right to my chart, test results, etc?
> Anybody know the legal ins and outs of this?
>
> Thanks!
> -Chris
> trumanthecat@hotmail.com
>

-- Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS

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Don't follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought. --Zen saying

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