Letters
Control of medical records
Extra safeguards are needed
BMJ 2012; 345 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e6206 (Published 18 September 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e6206- 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.
But …
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