By the way, with medical records going electronic, they tend to circulate even more widely than when they were just on paper. It disturbs me that, if I go to a foot doctor for an ingrown toenail, he probably has access to a lot of my psych history just because he is in the same healthcare system as where I get psych care.

Something more needs to be done to restrict access to medical record content. In the USA, HIPPA is getting to be less protective, in my opinion. What HIPPA mainly achieves is that there is a lot of care taken to get you to sign all kinds of waivers.