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> patients who are making stuff up entirely I'm not sure how making notes visible, or invisible, to patients would change the adage that "patients lie". Exacer
by drdeadringer 12y ago
> patients who are making stuff up entirely
I'm not sure how making notes visible, or invisible, to patients would change the adage that "patients lie". Exacerbation or reduction arguments, perhaps, but the fundamental principle I'm not sure would change.
Toward the "further lever to manipulate the system", that may be something to consider in terms of who has editorial access to the records vs. simple readability access to the records... little more.
- pyre 12y agoIt's not about the patient editing the record directly. It's more about the patient talking to a different doctor than the one that wrote the notes, and then saying, "oh, that's wrong. This is the right information." If the doctor takes that at face-value (like in the article's example), I assume that it ends up on the notes.
- judk 12y agoUltimately anyone can lie to anyone, and misplaced trust is a separate problem from letting people know. Plenty of records are incorrect, and kill people.
- pyre 12y agoBy hiding the records from the patients, it obfuscates the record from the patients. They can't know what's in there to correct (with truth or falsehoods) it without seeing it.