 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I suspect that the hospital risk managers had them shred the records. In some states now, like MA they are required to keep medical records for life. I first got wind of this several years ago. You've heard of politics gone bad, religion gone bad well this is medicine gone bad. Right up there with the unshielded x-ray machines for fitting shoes. Can you believe that they actually found a working one in a shoe store as late as 1981!!!! http://www.mtn.org/quack/devices/shoexray.htm another fun link: http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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