B. Lafferty wrote:
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The doctor has no legal standing to comment on what transpired during
treatment, absent an executed consent form.
Of course, these records could be subpoenaed, I suppose. But sometimes
hospitals instruct their doctors on what to put in progress notes. A
patient's medical records should certainly be complete in terms of past
medication use. Failure to do this could open the hospital and
personnel to liability.
OTOH, the information needs to be verifiable, and here's the sticking
point. The medical staff would have to know that a history of
performance enhancing drugs would be sensitive information, so it might
well be omitted from the written record.
During my residency, we were called to the ER for all facial trauma.
We were initially told to note if the patient was obviously drunk, or
obviously had alcohol on their breath. However, we were cautioned later
in the year to omit all such references to "AOB" since they were
subjective (and we certainly had no cause to run blood alcohols on these
guys).
Steve
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