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It'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 sa
by pyre 12y ago
It'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.