D Magazine July 4, 2022
Federal legislation mandates that patients have immediate access to all their medical records. Could that be too much of a good thing?
A few weeks ago, I went to get an MRI for what the doctor suspected was a torn ACL. Unfortunately, the imaging confirmed the injury, and my next decision was whether I wanted to go ahead with the surgery or rehab the injury and hope for the best.
Trying to be a well-informed patient, I thought I would get the MRI images sent to me so I could share them with another surgeon and get a second or third opinion. This is my knee, after all, and I have a couple of decades of active parenting ahead of...
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