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Other Medical records — need advice

Discussion in 'General' started by omicron, 2 Mar 2011.

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  1. omicron

    omicron Baud.

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    Bit of an odd request here, but I'm looking for some advice regarding accessing & possibly getting something relatively trivial removed from my records. If there's a medical professional or just someone who's in the know about this sort of thing with a bit of free time for a round of PM tennis, it'd be much appreciated.
    Don't need any counseling or anything ( ;) ) and it would all be unofficial, just putting out the feelers as I'll be applying next year.

    Cheers!
     
  2. pimonserry

    pimonserry sounds like a party.

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    Tried asking your GP? AFAIK they have full access to your medical records.

    I assume you can only have something removed because you're no longer ill/susceptible to it (e.g., growing out of allergies).
     
  3. Picarro

    Picarro What's a Dremel?

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    As pimonserry says I would talk to your GP, they should be able to help you. Though I do not think that they will remove anything which could be related to operating machinery safely or the likes.
     
  4. omicron

    omicron Baud.

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    It's an oddly specific situation, annoyingly, and difficult to explain without going into full detail. It's not that I was diagnosed with something, but that I was prescribed something which suggests a problem that in reality does not exist. Like I said, complicated.

    I did ask my GP about the situation while there for an unrelated issue, but he was of little use and seemed reluctant to comment. I tried phoning around and talking to local professionals but nobody was particularly willing to talk off the record and there was a baffling level of rudeness, presumably because I had dared to insinuate that a doctor could ever make a mistake. :confused:

    Getting access to my records is a largely secondary issue and shouldn't be difficult.
     
  5. Ending Credits

    Ending Credits Bunned

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    Why does it seem like every drug on the market can be used for something else? I was almost perscribed some sort of diabetic drug (or something along those lines, I've forgotten now) for a small problem I had with my eye that was a small symptom of a larger genetic problem which in turn was part of a syndrome. No wonder some people are on dozens of different medications all at once nowadays.

    Also, on the GP front, they're actually wrong quite often (medicine has a huge scope although when you have hoardes of self-wiki-diagnosed patients I can imagine that would annoy them); if you have the advice of a specialist I'd push things a bit further.
     
  6. Krazeh

    Krazeh Minimodder

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    Chances of you getting something removed off your medical record, especially when it relates to a treatment/prescription, are pretty low in my experience. You should be able to get an amendment added to the records to clarify the issue but having something removed entirely is probably not going to happen. You're unlikely to find any organisation who would force a medical professional to remove an entry from your medical record (unless it's a clearly factual error such as stating you had an operation on your left leg when it was actually on your right) and medical professionals are loathe to remove entries as it leaves gaps in your treatment history which could lead to issues both for the professional from a liability point of view and to you in terms of your health.
     
  7. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Krazeh is correct. You can ask access to your medical records. It is a small formality and may incur a small (£10,--) charge if you want to see the whole lot. You can also ask for an amendment to be written. Talk to the Patient Advice and Liaison Service at the hospital in question.

    And yes, medication can be used for different medical conditions --but not willy-nilly; it has to be licensed/approved for that use. Especially older meds that have been around for a while are often discovered to have unexpected secondary uses. Antidepressants and anti-epileptics for pain, aspirin as blood thinner, thalidomide for cancer, ibuprofen for Parkinsonism.
     
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