Thus, an employer processing an insurance claim for a work-related injury would not receive the employee's entire medical history. Doctors who refuse must go through an administrative review process. My concern is different. Ever since recommendation letters written by professors became documents their students could scrutinize, many professors have become rather leery about saying anything unflattering. Consequently, these letters have lost much of their value.
Doctors already feel beleaguered and flooded by paperwork.
The last thing they want to do is quarrel with their patients over file notations. Md. This issue could be minimized if patients were allowed to augment their files, adding their own views but not requiring the physicians to change theirs. Regulations also should require that these comments accompany the patient's file wherever it travels. Readers who favor the administration's approach on this point better let their views be known, because, so far, this aspect of the regulations has received largely critical comments. In this case, medical research is seriously threatened.