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The author, a British consultant surgeon, expresses his reservations patients' having access to their medical records. The nature of between doctors may change if it is known that patients will see material; potentially helpful yet tentative diagnoses may be excluded other information is watered down. Physicians will have additional, burdensome, demands placed on them to explain the records--including written by deceased or otherwise unavailable doctors, medical students, nonphysicians. Persons other than patients may see the records, further the issue. Ross asserts that, while patients do have the right see records, full access could be more harmful than beneficial to patients could be fraught with problems for physicians. (KIE abstract)
A. P. J. Ross (Sat,) studied this question.