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Originally Posted by upondeez
O.K. so I just talked to my sister who is a doctor. She explained the following to me;
The patient does have the right to their own copy, the office can charge a small fee for the copy. The office can try and make the patient come in for a second visit, the reason being is the patient is not qualified to read the tests and the results could be taken out of context.
Now if the patient cancells the follow up, they can not change it to a missed apointment. It is important that you fight this with them as they could put a notice in your file that you are an uncooperative patient and that could effect your future ability to get insurance and coverage.
I would just be carefull how you handle it as it could come back and bite you in the arse down the road. But you are right on many aspects of your arguement.
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thank you for this info! this sounds exactly like what has happened... the nurse expects us to come in b/c she thinks we can't read english as written by the doc
. even without the doc's handwritten notes, i can see that the results are in the correct range.
imo, it's just the cunt nurse on a power trip. i'm gonna show some tact when approaching this situation but if they give me any guff i'm gonna let 'em have it. i know that 9/10x the person i'm probably gonna be dealing with isn't the person trying to blackball us...