[howard941]

I think you're being too kind. The person taking notes was (or should have been) trained to listen for and accurately record admissions against interest. If it ever wound up in court stuff like this is presumed to be highly reliable because reasonable people are disinclined to admit to negative things.

This sort of thing highlights the need for broad and bulletproof physician-patient privilege.

[RyJones]

When I carefully read my records, I saw a bunch of random errors. I asked my PCP and surgeon how that happened; they said “probably transcription errors”

I don’t have a lot of faith in the quality of the records

[dragonsky]

And this is before you realise that your identity may have been incorrectly matched against someone else leading to you having somebody else’s treatment on your record.

[lostlogin]

It’s not always the healthcare provider at fault here (but must usually be). I’ve been peripherally involved in 2 cases where someone actively pretended to be someone else (one due to a sketchy immigration status and the other was a mental health situation).

Both were a complete nightmare to sort out.