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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,232
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,232
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Yes, I obtained copies of my records and have found errors. Some "past" errors seem of little concern until you need them to be accurate for a particular reason. At one office visit, I had a doctor ask me about a medication I had never heard of and was definitely not taking. He had cut and pasted another person's records into mine on the computer. He never fixed the error and now I am stuck with things on my record that do not belong to me. (I changed docs after that fiasco.) I also like to get copies at each visit for a few reasons. It does not cost you anything for a page or two at a time when done by the office personnel and they are usually happy to do it for you. Waiting usually results in copies being made by a third party and billed to you. I have also had docs leave town, die, etc. and then I had no access to my records under any circumstances. No one seems to know where the records went. I have also had physicians that belonged to a group practice, go to another group practice and leave their records with their prior group.
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