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There is literally only a **single** state in the USA where you still control autonomy over your own medical records (prescription drug list) and that is MO!
That means if you are in any other state and ever had a prescription doctors can find out what it was and who prescribed it. That means doctors can find your past doctors without your approval.
The scary part? You also have no control over your medical records. So your PCP can now legally look this up and contact all your past doctors for medical records and you cant do anything about it, you cant legally stop them, you cant purge your records, you cant purge your prescription list.
This is very scary for anyone who has been abused at the hand of a past doctor and moves.. If they have put any negative information about you that might make future doctors hostile towards you or not want you as a patient... there is nothing you can do... that is so scary...
@freemo It also means that if an ambulance finds you unresponsive on the side of the road, they can find out which medicines you're prescribed that could have caused your condition, and which you're allergic to that would put you in further danger.
@freemo And it presumably also greatly helps doctors prevent drug abuse by patients that "shop around" for a prescription.
@LouisIngenthron Which is NOT the place of a doctor... hell he shouldnt even have the right to tell you what you can put in your own body.. bodily autonomy is a sacred right.
@freemo True, but these people aren't always shopping these prescriptions for personal use.
@LouisIngenthron Thats not a problem your doctor should be trying to solve.
@LouisIngenthron its also could be easily solved if designed with the proper care (a system which does not openly let you see what a person is prescribed but will automatically block a pharmacy from filling the same prescription multiple times, even across different pharmacsy)..
