In the United States I don't think a psychiatrist is required to release records to a patient. I tried to get them from a clinic I went to a long time ago and they refused. I was pissed so I looked up the law. From what I remember they have to send them to another medical institution on your behalf or your lawyer. I was dumb because years before that same office handed them all directly to me so I could give them to my new mental health provider. I never made copies. They must have changed policy. I got the records recently from when I was inpatient psyche ward twenty years ago no problem. So I guess it depends on policy but the law says they don't have to. My lawyer is getting every record ever made in the last twenty years for a disability hearing and I am gonna get a copy of every single page if I can.

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