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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you give me a real example of how this will impact your life? Not just “insurance” or that you have anxiety about it or that it’s wrong or that you have a heart condition. I’m curious what the tangible impact is if this incorrect information remains on the record? Like what is the real world consequence?

I have a child with complex medical problems and have found 2 things to be nearly universally true:

1. There are mistakes in doctors notes. Sometimes big, sometimes small, but always at least 1 for every visit;

2. Doctors never read each other’s notes. Even when I really want them to. Even when it would help. I think the only person who reads the notes is me. What am I missing? What difference does it make?[/quote]

NP.  I have a rare disease and have seen numerous specialists, with shorter and longer visits for them.  I have mostly found this to be true, too.  Sometimes a doctor will read another doctor's notes but generally only when some specific question has come up, not before an appointment.  And yes, there are various incorrect diagnoses and mistakes in my chart.  It's never even come up.  Not an issue.  Doctors look first at the patient in front of them, and the current issue, IMO.  Only look at past history if there's a question that comes up.  Treatment, insurance?  That's all about the presenting patient.  [/quote]

Not op. Good for you that it didn't cause a problem, but I could see where it would. An incorrect item placed in my notes caused endless problems when I was admitted to the hospital for preterm labor. [/quote]

What were the problems? Genuinely curious![/quote]

Not PP. I am a different PP and think the OP needs to pick her battles and that none of what she has said here makes it clear that this is a critical one.

To give a sense of what I consider to cross that threshold and how insane a lift it was to do something about it, here is one I fought: at my 6-week post-delivery OB visit, a record was inserted into my file saying that I had taken a urine drug screen and that it was negative for everything except tobacco. I had not taken a urine drug screen, or peed at all, at that appointment. Have never smoked a cigarette (or anything else).

I considered a clearly erroneous test result that could be involved in something like a custody dispute to be a big enough problem to argue. It took six months to get the lab result removed, even though the dr's office immediately conceded that it was not mine and belonged to a different patient who was seen that day.

An erroneous reference to a diagnosis ostensibly from another dr, I wouldn't bother with much. In fact, it's also happened to me--a doc saw an Rx medication that is used for multiple conditions and assumed it was for Condition A, and wrote a diagnosis of Condition A on a cover sheet on my chart where all the diagnoses go (this was before electronic medical records). I did not have Condition A, but Condition Z, for which the medication is also used.

Sanity has value and preserving it has to be a priority in interactions with the health care system. [/quote]

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