Letter
Control of medical records
Extra safeguards are needed
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BMJ
2012;345:e6206
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- Richard D Turner, director of public health (retired)1
- 1Harrogate HG1 2EZ, UK
- richardturner6842{at}gmail.com
Al-Ubaydli and Davies seem not to have come across any of the difficulties that campaigners against patient owned medical records worry about.1 2 When doctors and patients agree on everything, and the record contains nothing that patients would rather not disclose, most people would not object to record sharing.
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