Re: Why you should review your medical records

Dear MJ,

Are you taking any bets? Before I give odds, I was wondering if this doc is
also the one Rxing MM. I would hope you don't answer that as it's nobody's
business but yours, but with the fight they had in your part of the world
over MM, and the way it was done, I can see the doc agreeing with you, but
the person doing the notes feeling it's their "medical duty" to spread the
word. A self righteous moron who doesn't give a ***, IOW. It may take more
than a word of reproach from their employer to get the message across.
Keep in touch on this, you got me curious. Would you take it as far as to
litigate it, if necessary? I know that costs money, but nothing is worth
more than fixing damage to your reputation. Something like "history of
substance abuse", now that every doc is wired to every other doc, has the
potential to spread like a virus, working it's way to every doctor and
hospital in the country. That's no small amount of damage that could be
done.

Best of luck. Keep me in the loop on how it goes--og





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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:01:24 -0800, "Juba" <juba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Watch what you say. If it weren't bad enough that they are writing
everything down, you can also see from my experience how something
that was wasn't even true to begin with can take on a life of its
own and never go away.

Juba,

I believe you have the right to add your own rebuttal and/or
explanation to be added to your medical record, inserted in-line with
the inaccurate data.

Mike

They will certainly add my letter to my file. Problem is, it would
soon be buried by newer reports that continually repeat the phrase
"history of substance abuse" unless I can get them to stop writing
that.

In researching this further I've come to the conclusion that the doctor is
probably not the one who has been writing these reports. His notes are
typed up by someone else and none of the orginal notes contain the phrase,
"history of substance abuse". The clerk who wrote the first report after
my first visit to this doctor apparently combed through 30 years of my
medical records to find where a doctor first made mention of my casual
remark. Then "history of substance abuse" became boilerplate that was
added to every report that has been generated since.

I've tweaked my letter a little bit since I first posted about this. Here
is the most important change; "So, I'm asking that the phrase "history of
substance abuse" be stricken from all of the reports that have been
written about me since I started seeing you, because it is not true now
and it never has been true. "

I mailed the letter today, along with copies of my medical records with
the offending phrases highlighted.

The response should be interesting. Will the doctor accept that this is a
mistake that should be rectified, or will the "God complex" kick in and
prevent any rational response? I'll post the answer when I get one.


--
Juba
www.masterjuba.com



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