Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!henry@GARP.MIT.EDU From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: correcting your medical record ... Message-ID: <40461@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 21 Oct 90 20:56:53 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU Lines: 21 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: squid.cs.ucla.edu Note: Copyright 1990 by Daniel R. Greening. Permission granted for Note: non-commercial reproduction. Archive-number: 2668 this friday i learned that my antibody status was erroneously recorded on my medical record (in fact, i haven't been tested for HIV exposure by this organization at all). a phone call to the office where the transcription from hand-written records to an on-line system has confirmed the error in transcription, and they have promised to correct the error within 72 hours (thus, when i turn up on tuesday afternoon it's supposed to be fixed). i have learned that i can get a copy of this record by turning up at their records department with appropriate ID (i expect the record i am given then is the on-line version and not copies of the hand-written originals). i plan on doing this. some unanswered questions i expect to put to the head of their records department include "who had access to this erroneous record?" ... i wonder exactly what else i need to be thinking about when i go to these people with questions. # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # / / # via X.400: S=mensch; OU=informatik; P=tu-muenchen; A=dbp; C=de