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Anonymous wrote:You can write a letter that clarifies and it will be added to the chart. You don’t have to share any information from that doctor with future doctors if you choose not to.

Doctors don’t need your consent to share medical records with other doctors providing care.

Don’t get me wrong- the OP sounds nuts- but it is reasonable to expect doctors to maintain accurate medical records and correct them when they make mistakes.

An incorrect diagnosis on her file will follow her. Depending on her insurance, she may have to seek a new provider in the same healthcare system as the old doctor so the notes will remain in her file because they are connected. Stating a patient has had unhealthy eating habits/lack of exercise when they have a heart condition is something read by insurance providers and other doctors. It could actually cause problems for the patient in the future. She doesn't sound "nuts." She sounds like she wants her health record to be free of mistakes which isn't "nuts."

It actually is kind of nuts. That is what those of us with a lot of experience looking at our medical records are here saying. They always contain errors and doctors know this. Insisting that the errors be corrected in situations where there is not an obvious negative consequence that everyone can easily anticipate distinguishes the patient doing the insisting. Choosing to be distinguished that way is...a choice. It has costs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can write a letter that clarifies and it will be added to the chart. You don’t have to share any information from that doctor with future doctors if you choose not to.

Doctors don’t need your consent to share medical records with other doctors providing care.

Don’t get me wrong- the OP sounds nuts- but it is reasonable to expect doctors to maintain accurate medical records and correct them when they make mistakes.

An incorrect diagnosis on her file will follow her. Depending on her insurance, she may have to seek a new provider in the same healthcare system as the old doctor so the notes will remain in her file because they are connected. Stating a patient has had unhealthy eating habits/lack of exercise when they have a heart condition is something read by insurance providers and other doctors. It could actually cause problems for the patient in the future. She doesn't sound "nuts." She sounds like she wants her health record to be free of mistakes which isn't "nuts."

Cause problems in the future? Please describe what sort of problems could emerge.

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Anonymous wrote:Quit your doctor. Do not forward your old file with the new doctor. Poof! The old notes are gone.

No perhaps you should read up on obamas online medical records crap. This follows you FOREVER. WHERE EVER YOU GO.

Doesn't exactly work though.

Anonymous wrote:Quit your doctor. Do not forward your old file with the new doctor. Poof! The old notes are gone.

No perhaps you should read up on obamas online medical records crap. This follows you FOREVER. WHERE EVER YOU GO.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can write a letter that clarifies and it will be added to the chart. You don’t have to share any information from that doctor with future doctors if you choose not to.

Doctors don’t need your consent to share medical records with other doctors providing care.

Don’t get me wrong- the OP sounds nuts- but it is reasonable to expect doctors to maintain accurate medical records and correct them when they make mistakes.

An incorrect diagnosis on her file will follow her. Depending on her insurance, she may have to seek a new provider in the same healthcare system as the old doctor so the notes will remain in her file because they are connected. Stating a patient has had unhealthy eating habits/lack of exercise when they have a heart condition is something read by insurance providers and other doctors. It could actually cause problems for the patient in the future. She doesn't sound "nuts." She sounds like she wants her health record to be free of mistakes which isn't "nuts."

Anonymous wrote:You can write a letter that clarifies and it will be added to the chart. You don’t have to share any information from that doctor with future doctors if you choose not to.

Doctors don’t need your consent to share medical records with other doctors providing care.

Don’t get me wrong- the OP sounds nuts- but it is reasonable to expect doctors to maintain accurate medical records and correct them when they make mistakes.

Quit your doctor. Do not forward your old file with the new doctor. Poof! The old notes are gone.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

What were the problems? Genuinely curious!

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.

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Anonymous wrote:time to find a new doctor.
It never makes sense to go online and read their crap on your chart anyway all of it is documented to protect them out themselves in a good light and crap on the patient.

I'm just now realizing that. She wrote stuff like "Educated the patient on a healthy diet and lifestyle." (I told her I'm following a plant based diet and talked about that for a minute or 2. She didn't educate me on that).

You’re seriously taking issue with that? Part of what she’s documenting in the record is that she discussed all of these things with you, both for insurance reimbursement purposes and in case there is ever a question later about the nature of the care she provided at each visit. It doesn’t if you required 20 seconds of nutritional education or 20 minutes to confirm you understood how to eat healthfully, the fact is she did it and it was appropriate to document.

I'm done posting here because I'm getting flamed for anything I write.
If you've read the entire thread, you'd know I have a heart condition. I have to actively manage that. I do that by eating a very healthy diet and exercising daily. She said she educated me, but she didn't. I was telling her what diet I'm following. There was no education on her part. I was replying to another poster who said doctors' notes often make themselves look great and they dump on the patient.

IT DOES NOT MATTER. Wow you have a major league psychiatric problem also. Probably OCD.

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Anonymous wrote:This doctor sounds like a piece of work

Name and shame

+1 NAME and SHAME please

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Did you read this and the other post? I am curious why you posted a second time about the same thing OP.

Sigh. I had not asked her to make corrections at that point and it took her a long time to reply. When she did, she said she wasnt changing anything including the incorrect diagnosis that she noted another doctor "made" (he never made that diagnosis).

We really can't respond to this appropriately unless you disclose what the diagnosis is/isn't. That you keep refusing to add this piece of information is suspicious.

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Anonymous wrote:change drs

And file a complaint.

And you wonder why doctors are leaving clinical practice in droves? It’s people like you.

You are ridiculous. Doctors need to treat their patients better. Problems aren't the fault of the patients.

Yep exactly this. But since there are barely any primary care doctors anymore good luck finding a new one OP.