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[SKluck]

Is there any way to get a copy or somehow get a look at what is in your medical file / records? I honestly have no idea how they are kept or where or by who, but I'm particularly interested in what certain have doctors have put in it, and think it is a little unfair because it is probably inaccurate / one-sided. I want to see what doctors have written given my mental ward visit a couple years back.

Curious as hell too.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

I think most hospitals/doctors offices are required to give you a copy of your record. It's not one big file but just files from each doctor you have visited, whether at a hospital or at a office. You just have to request it. Might have to pay for it, not much but they may charge a fee to copy all the pages. Now, legibility, you might have some problems. As my time gets shorter, less people will be able to understand my heiroglyphics.

Heiroglyphics was a great band by the way. It needs to be said since I don't get to write that word out too often. I'll be shocked if I spelled it write (sp?). j/k

;p

 

[Incognito]

I have three volumes of my records right next to me in a bookshelf. Volume 4 is getting pretty thick as time passes on.

 

[SKluck]

So what do new doctors you go to do, just request files from the hospitals you have been to? How would they know? There has to be some kind of central history? Or from the insurance company? But what if you have no insurance?

 

[Loki]

and think it is a little unfair because it is probably inaccurate / one-sided. I want to see what doctors have written given my mental ward visit a couple years back.

No offense, and not to make light of your situation, but I don't think that if you were in a mental ward, that you're in any position to think that a professional's opinion/diagnosis of you is somehow "unfair/inaccurate". I mean, think about what you're saying.


It's not just you, either: I was in a clinical depression many years ago, and I would tend to think that the analyses of the couple of psychologists I went to see were just a tad more unbiased/accurate than my own opinions of my situation were. Unless you felt that they had a vendetta against you for some reason, which would be unusual (though not unheard of).

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

So what do new doctors you go to do, just request files from the hospitals you have been to? How would they know? There has to be some kind of central history? Or from the insurance company? But what if you have no insurance?

Go to the place/s you've been treated at and ask. Call up before hand so they'll have it ready. If it's at a hopspital, just call and ask for 'medical records'. I think it's against the law not to give it to you. But I'm not 100% sure on that. Technically, it's your property.

 

[cubanb]

come on people.... does nobody watch seinfeld?

 

[Justin85]

come on people.... does nobody watch seinfeld?

My thoughts exactly.