BBC medical records story

[Ben Clifford]

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Owen Blacker wrote:

> That said, I'm inclined to agree that medical records should probably be
> centrally held (or on a distrbuted system), rather than replying on me not
> losing some token.

The technology exists for medical records to be simultaneously held by the
patient *and* the bureacracy - at least for many kinds of record (eg.
paper notes sized A3 and smaller) you can make those copies at 10p in many
places (eg. libraries, petrol stations)

I personally have no objection to the bureaucracy having a copy of my
records - what I object to is them having the *unique* copy. I also object
to having to pay large sums of money for a copy rather than being allowed
to check out my records for the afternoon to copy myself.

> Owen (who can't PGP sign things on site) x

That's alright then - as you've explicitly said you couldn't sign it, I'll
believe your message was genuine :-))

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