The Canadian Medical Association Journal says it’s time for more transparency, that patients should have access to the notes doctors write about them.
Patients have the right to see their medical records. But the editorial, written by Dr. Kirsten Patrick, the CMAJ’s deputy editor, notes that those rights come with “hoops and speed bumps.”
Resistance to the idea comes from many doctors concerned about their already overwhelming obligation to supply required paperwork to government bureaucrats.
But Dr. Patrick says more and more doctors appear ready to accept the idea.
She says the tools to share the information are there, it’s just a matter of figuring out how to use them.
I spoke with Dr. Patrick from her office in Ottawa.
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