Posted by Gabbix2 on September 18, 2005, at 0:46:50
In reply to WAIT--Please read this!, posted by Emily Elizabeth on September 18, 2005, at 0:30:55
The question was, do you have a right to see your file. And my answer was yes you do. Not knowing what is in your file can be harmful too, especially when the patient not knowing what has been written about them (that which is not necessarily the truth, but the opinion of the P.Doc) allows this information to be shared with other medical proffessionals, and may end up stigmatizing them
Of course I would want to go over it with someone but not necessarily the P.Doc who wrote it, because I'd want an objective opinion.
I don't necessarily go along that the P.Doc's want to protect their patient, I think often they want to avoid having to explain anything they may have been incorrectly assessed, and legitimately taken issue with by the patient.
If you take the pdocs word as gospel, then I suppose that is not an issue. To me, it's just another viewpoint, and hardly authoritative.
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