The psychiatrist I've been seeing recently asked me to sign a release form so that she could communicate with my therapist. I'd made the mistake of giving her my therapist's name and didn't know that she'd written it down until I saw her notes online.

I pay for my therapy privately, and I value my confidentiality, so I said I wanted to talk to my therapist about it first.

My therapist said in all the years she's been in practice, there have only been a few times when "coordination of care" actually benefited the person. Mostly, she said, it's just sending paperwork back and forth. AND (this is what I hadn't thought through) all those records are available to any provider, even if I go in for minor surgery.

So, I declined the release form and asked to have her name removed my my record, which the pdoc did.

Has this been a concern for anyone else, or did information sharing between providers help you?