Connor's medical records are of course a big jumbled complicated mess. I try to keep up with them, and I keep copies of the big reports and test results. Recently I realized that I'm losing track of some of it, so I decided to catch up. I called his Pediatrician and asked if I can come in and review his records. I wanted to just sit in a room with his records and read them, making notes (in my own notebook) about things I have questions on, or what specific reports are in there that I don't have, etc.<br><br>
For some reason this confused the Peds office. They at first said that I had to schedule an appt with the dr to go over his records. I said "his records are already two volumes thick, it might take me an hour or more to go over them, I don't want to tie up the dr for that long" (nor do I want to pay a copay!).<br><br>
So the nurse and office manager were going to talk to the dr, then get back to me. No one knew how to handle this apparently odd request. A few days go by and I called them back to find out what they had decided. Turns out they decided to just copy his entire medical record and give that to me so I could read it over myself. I said "What?? Who's going to pay for that? I'm not requesting a copy, I'm not going to pay for a copy. I just want to READ his records. If I need copies of anything, I'll ask specifically and I'll pay for those." The nurse said that they won't charge me *this time*. ??<br><br>
Evidently this is an odd question to ask? Does anyone want to do an experiment? Call up your dr or your child's dr and ask if you can review your records, see what they say. I truly didn't think this was an odd question.
For some reason this confused the Peds office. They at first said that I had to schedule an appt with the dr to go over his records. I said "his records are already two volumes thick, it might take me an hour or more to go over them, I don't want to tie up the dr for that long" (nor do I want to pay a copay!).<br><br>
So the nurse and office manager were going to talk to the dr, then get back to me. No one knew how to handle this apparently odd request. A few days go by and I called them back to find out what they had decided. Turns out they decided to just copy his entire medical record and give that to me so I could read it over myself. I said "What?? Who's going to pay for that? I'm not requesting a copy, I'm not going to pay for a copy. I just want to READ his records. If I need copies of anything, I'll ask specifically and I'll pay for those." The nurse said that they won't charge me *this time*. ??<br><br>
Evidently this is an odd question to ask? Does anyone want to do an experiment? Call up your dr or your child's dr and ask if you can review your records, see what they say. I truly didn't think this was an odd question.