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The Patient Portal—Help or Hindrance?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: 17 hours ago | Replies (258)Comment receiving replies
@becsbuddy I’ve been surprised how much angst this right to see has caused!
I don’t look. It’s simple. I wait for my meeting with my oncologist and he tells me what I need/want to know.
I do know there are people who like to carefully read all of their results (and have become very adept at doing so). They like to be able to prepare questions at their leisure for when they meet their doctors. They then like to be able to refer back after seeing their oncologist again at their leisure. I don’t.
It’s a win win law. Look or don’t look. The choice is there 😊
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Mayo now has a patient friendly report format where technical words are highlighted, and one puts the cursor over the word and a definition pops up. Works well.
Yes, it is a choice if one wants to look at reports before seeing the doctor. Unfortunately, one can not rely on the doctor telling the patient everything on the report. I have had two issues I had to follow up with other specialists and the specialist ordering the test did not mention to me.