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Hello, ,my name is Helen. I am not new here but i had lost all my email info and lymenet password and all that so i finally signed back up. My old display name was Helen65. Just wanted to gripe and see if anyone else had had thier records lost or thrown out. ....
Recently i was trying to get my records from an old Dr.s office and was told they were purged. This makes me so mad. The old office is actually an affiliate of the new office i go to, just in a closer town. I had went to the old office since 1986? to 1998. Now all i have is records starting in 2001 at the new office. 2 years ago(approx.)the office i go to now built a new building right by the old one and they kept old records outside in a storage shed, the storage shed is gone and so are the records..Just wanted to vent.
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bettyg
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how awful where they could have advertised this and given them away to those still living, etc.
helen, may i suggest you UPDATE MY PROFILE and show your former member name in the SIGNATURE line to help folks remember your original name
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Ocean
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after reading this, I called to get my old records from 1997 and was told they are only required to keep medical records for 7 years! They said that they recently had a flood and had all records dating from 30 years back, but they have since shredded everything except the past 7 years.
I too, was digusted.
Now I'm keeping records of all Labs, ect and putting them in a safe place!!
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My neighbor is a attorney for a legal firm specializing in medical related suits. She says this is standard practice. So if you feel you need a copy of your medical records - get them now. Our company - not medical - shreds everything over 6 years - just can't store everything. Peedie
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thanks peedie for the info, i did not know this at all, and with my lyme brain it makes me so much more upset because i can't remember dates of my surgeries and stuff. oh well. Maybe a good thing haha
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Does this 6-7 years apply to computerized records also? My PCP's office is stricly computerized now. Getting printouts is a pain. Handy, though, when they want to look up something like hospital records, lab results, etc.
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lou4656
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I find it interesting that records are only kept for 7 years, especially now that everything can be kept on disk.
When I wrote to NARA to get genealogy info on my great-great grandfather, they sent me all his medical records from the civil war through to his death (1864-1912).
Not that records need to be kept forever, but there are many reasons for keeping these records.
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bettyg
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i too was going to suggest getting a copy of the MICROFILM SHEETS; you could buy very reasonably.
where i used to work, we had microfilm readers, and you'd read whatever, and then make copies only of what you needed!
i worked with lawyers coming in on lawsuits looking for evidence from files;
i suggested to the higher ups to just make them a copy of MICROFILM files as i sometimes would make microfilm COPIES ALL 8 HOURS!!!! and those god awful lights were the pits.
we went to my suggestion and it cost them only $1.00 per sheet, plus LABOR expenses of person making copies!! it was a win-win situation.
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