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Another Reason Patients Should Review Their Health Records
You should check to see if your doctor is using your medical records for CYA purposes. This is especially true if you are a patient with a potentially expensive medical problem which, if your doctor followed all the guidelines to the letter, could result in substantial "medical loss" for the third-party payer (i.e., the doctor's boss).[There are times when...] your doctor's note does not accurately reflect what happened to you, or what you actually told him about [an] episode. Instead, it alters the facts just enough to make it seem reasonable for him to skip any further medical evaluation. If you have no further problems, no unnecessary dollars will have been spent and everybody's happy. If you die, that's terrible and all, but nobody reading the records will be able to fault him for doing what he did (or rather, for not doing what he didn't). So it's a win-win.
This is another reason for routinely reviewing your health records. In an era of covert rationing, you can protect yourself by not exposing your doctors to the ever-present temptation to "spin" the records. (Some doctors are regular DJs.) If your doctor knows you are going to read whatever he puts down, he's a lot less likely to color the story to your disadvantage.
From The Covert Rationing Blog
Now, try to make arrangements wth your doctor to obtain regular copies of your medical records. Military secrets would be easier to get.
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