just found a frightening inaccuracy in my medical records. anything I can do about it?

[needabetterusername]

I've just read my medical records for the first time. At least I now know why hospital staff are inclined to be so wary of me.

I've discovered that my medical records document my reporting of an, erm, serious event (sorry, I can't get the words out) which took place at a very improbable location. The event described did not take place, and I never alleged that it did. And because, from the way it is recorded it seems almost certainly untrue, I'm left coming across as either utterly mental or an evil and malicious lier.

The woman who showed me my records was very embarrassed and apologetic, and immediately entered a note in the margin stating that I deny having said it all. Is there anything else, though, that I can do to have all mention of it deleted?

I think you can write to request it is removed entirely from your records.

how on earth did it get on there?
this is so major surely they should investigate rather than just amending your records!

Do the record indicate who entered it into your medical notes? When you medical records what do you mean exactly - do you mean related to your pregnancy or at your GPs or what?

put soemthing in writing and ask for it to be filed in your records

contact the medical records supervisor - there should be a procedure in place to allow notes to be officially edited

is the entry signed - is the staff member who wrote it still there - if so contact and challenge them

is the offending entry on a loose sheet and if so does it have any id pinning it to you on it. it's very common for records to be misfiled - could it belong in someone else's notes?

hth - i'd be frothing about this - hope you get it sorted

Sorry about the delay. Thanks for your replies.

I think I know how it happened. A particular staff members asked me a particularly "sensitive" question, and I think I replied quite euphemistically with an idiom she may not have understood. Really, she should have recorded my exact words and/or clarified what I meant. But I should have given a more direct answer.

So how can I ask for the sentence in question to be deleted? It's in the middle of a page of important info - am I allowed to request a black pen or tippex over it?

god I am so curious now

giving birth in the queen's bed?

"giving birth in the queen's bed?"

To a three-headed turquiose alien, yes. You must have read about me in the News of the World.

But honestly, this is a public forum. Some things are surely TMI?

alien abduction?

tut tut

Yes I woudl demand it be removed

Yes, but how?

Never TMI