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 Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:59 am |
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How often do doctors put incorrect information in medical records?
Last February my father passed away in a hospital. Out of curiosity,
recently I obtained his medical records from the hospital.
The emergency room doctor who saw my father on 2-21-06, wrote in his
records that my father had a prosthetic foot and prostate cancer, along
with other problems.
I called his doctor and it was confirmed a prosthetic foot is indeed a
fake foot. I thought maybe there was more than one definition. My
father DID NOT have an artificial foot. In his 90 years he never had
surgery of any kind. His doctor is puzzled why the emergency room
doctor wrote that my father had a prosthetic foot.
His doctor is equally puzzled why the emergency room doctor wrote that
my father had prostate cancer. Just last summer a urologist examined my
father and found he had an enlarged prostate, but no cancer.
When errors such as this are found, it makes a person wonder what other
errors were made.
My father didn't trust doctors and I'm beginning to think he was right. |
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