Doctors Don’t Agree On Letting Patients See Notes
National Public Radio
The medical record has traditionally been viewed by the medical establishment as something that they own,” says Dr. Tom Delbanco of Harvard Medical School. “They think: ‘It’s my private notes. This is my stuff.’”
“My hope is that it will be a method of communicating with patients,” he says, “so patients can see what we’re thinking, where our head is, what our plans are, why we’re suggesting what we do.”…