Do you wonder what your doctor scribbles in the chart during your visit? Patients at Harborview Medical Center got to read their medical records, including their doctors’ detailed notes. For some, that access prompted them to become more involved in their health care. Linda Johnson, 67, had been relatively healthy all her adult life. She…
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The Doctor is Listening: More on OpenNotes & Surprising Results of What Doctors Think
Recently, I wrote on NPR’s Shots Blog about the movement towards open medical records and the pioneering work of OpenNotes by Dr. Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker. Here’s an excellent RWJF podcast about why they decided getting health care providers to share their notes with patients, and where their work is headed next. Here’s a…
NPR Weekend Edition: When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
The woman was sitting on a gurney in the emergency room, and I was facing her, typing. I had just written about her abdominal pain when she posed a question I’d never been asked before: “May I take a look at what you’re writing?” At the time, I was a fourth-year medical resident in Boston.…
Dr. Tom Delbanco on The Diane Rehm Show: New Efforts to Make Doctors’ Notes Easily Accessible to Patients
Listen to Dr. Tom Delbanco and a panel of clinicians and consumers discuss OpenNotes on the Diane Rehm Show. By law, most patients have the right to access their medical records. But obtaining them can be time-consuming and expensive. A growing number of health advocates are pushing to give patients easy electronic access to physicians’…
NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Should Patients See Their Doctors’ Notes?
More than 90 percent of patients in one survey said they’d want to know what doctors write in their charts. The majority of doctors, though, are reluctant to share their notes. Time’s Alice Park explains why patients want to see their charts — and why many physicians are wary of the idea. Listen to the…
NPR: Doctors Don’t Agree On Letting Patients See Notes
Every time you see the doctor, he or she writes a note about the encounter for the record. Normally you never see it. A lot of what’s in that note is objective stuff about your blood pressure, weight and blood count. But often your doctor puts down subjective impressions. Did you seem down? Anxious? Angry?…
