It's becoming obvious that we have to start keeping our own medical records because:
- After transferring records from an "old" doctor to a "new" one, by law the new one cannot release the records of the old one, not even to the patient. This scenario comes up when we switch doctors due to changes in insurance coverage. We have to go back to the old doctor repeatedly.
- My wife's condition requires a team of specialists that include pain management, neurology, rheumatology, Naturopathic care, chiropractic care, any of which can order MRIs and blood tests, and each specialist may want to see the records of the other.
So I did a simple search on Yahoo and came across these articles, which I plan to read when I don't need to hold my eyelids open:
... family's medical and health records. ... Options for medical record keeping ... printable medical history report and health diary to journal chronic conditions ...
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For the tim being, I have the most important stuff on my medic alert service. Easy for any doc or EMT to access. I update as needed. I don't change docs much. I did change orthopedists a few times several years ago but they were all in the same practice so they had access to all the old surgery records anyway.
I keep the originals or copies of what I can get in the medical records folder that became my property upon exiting government healthcare thanks to no longer being a dependent. I didn't have (or use) healthcare coverage when I worked, and then came a long space of not having insurance at all. As it is, my current battle with doctors leaves me very little records I care to keep anyways. I do have my sleep apnia diagnosis as well as celiac so yeah, not much else to hang on to lately.
In India, it is fairly simple. The doctors rarely keep records and the patients are expected to keep all records. So, I follow a simple manual filing system. There are some doctors who do keep records and they are usually duplicates of the records with the patients.
I think we'll have to do what you do in India, rummuser. And we'll get a lot of exercise lugging it from one doctor to the next every other week or so.
Sherlock, there was one doctor who required written records. I'm sure he wouldn't have bothered to access medic alert.
Tirsden, no records would be wonderful. That's the best advice, ever -- don't get sick!
Thanks all for posting!
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