I hate when I hear doctors say to patients, “I do not take your medical history because I do not hold that information in my office or I am not the one who gives you the prescription.
Doctors do not hold medical records in their offices. This is a myth because the majority of doctors go to great lengths to put their patients’ privacy above the patient’s. They may not be the ones who keep these records, but they do keep them, and they do the best they can to keep them private. This is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing, so be careful.
This is a problem because the doctors’ practices have been called into question by several people who believe that it’s OK for doctors to make notes and records as long as the doctor’s not the one who gives them the drugs, surgery, or other treatment. While most of these doctors seem to be unaware of this, the problem is that they do it anyway, and that, of course, can cause issues.
As far as doctors practices go, you can probably bet that the one thing that most doctors most likely do not do and want to do is to write down a patient’s treatment plan. While they might give that patient a prescription and some other instructions, they often don’t consider it to be a full record of the patient’s treatment unless the doctor decides to make it one.
This is a problem because, while doctors should be doing everything they can to keep the data of their patients from being shared with the general public, they need to keep the data safe. For instance, a patient who has a high-risk condition that might require a transplant could have a doctor record that might allow someone who is not aware of the patient’s condition, to find out the patient’s medical condition.
Doctors might be able to do this, but the privacy issues are the real problem. Most doctors treat their patients like their pets, and they don’t want to share their medical data with anyone, especially not with their partners. This is the same reason why we don’t want medical records of our partners to be known to the public, too.
Doctors can and do record patients and it might be possible to do without consent, but it would be a bit different. Since consent is voluntary, it would be a very personal decision. Doctors would only be able to record information about a patient if they knew that the patient was aware of the information being recorded.
Doctors would probably need to be told explicitly that they are recording information about a patient that they cannot give to anyone else. This is because the same is true for your health insurance information. If you are on your insurance, your doctor can collect information about your health on your behalf. If you are not on your insurance, you are not getting what you pay for.
Doctors may be able to get away with the idea of not giving information to insurance companies and the government. But that information would be recorded anyway. The same is true for everything else: the names of your friends, your bank account, even your medical history. The government can access your bank account. And of course doctors still have access to your medical history.