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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
There is a US federal right of patients to their medical records, but an exception exists for MH records. A practitioner of MH can deny access to records to the patient (they still must forward the records to other practitioners, but the patient would not see his or her records), so that is discrimination. It may be sometimes necessary, but on the surface, at least, it is discrimination.
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To clarify, the MH records can be withheld or redacted if reading them could be considered detrimental to the patient's health.
Is it discrimination if it's for legitimate medical reasons.....also, even medical records are not revealed in toto if you request them.