>
>
> When I persisted, she refused, saying she
>wasn't allowed to send the results to patients. "What, for example, if the
>results are positive?" 
>
If this situation occurs again then you need only remind the person that 
there is case law which states that patients have a right to their files 
(copies etc). I had this same situation (access to personal information) 
occur once and I can assure you that it has never happened since. The 
access issue continues, however, to arise with patients because the 
public is not aware and further exasperated by the lack of a Patient's 
Bill of Rights in this country.
Sandi


Chrystal Ocean wrote:

>One factor in not having regular mammographies is not having a family
>doctor. Same with pap smears and all that good stuff.
>
>I was once at the local hospital with a friend. The mammography office was
>next door to us, so I stopped in to see if I could have one done. My last
>mammography was in 1998 and there's a high frequency of cancer on the
>maternal side of my family. 
>
>The technician asked if I had a family doctor. I don't. 
>
>She said she couldn't do a mammography on me, as she had no one to send the
>results to. When I suggested the obvious, that she send them to me, she
>replied that she couldn't do that. When I persisted, she refused, saying she
>wasn't allowed to send the results to patients. "What, for example, if the
>results are positive?" (Well, duh, I'd get myself to the hospital!)
>
>Last year, our community finally got a walk-in clinic. Now people who don't
>have doctors can have such tests done.
>
>Ocean
>
>  
>

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