I always read and download the notes. I love my urologist, he was the guy who took my kidney and the guy that took my prostate but it was funny because, and this was 10 years ago when I just got a printout before portals were really much of a thing, he wrote "patient has a well formed healthy circumcised penis" and it was a joke between me and my wife for years because the next time I went in I said "doc, I think something happened because since our last visit something seems to have grown back....".

I never took it personally - at first I was concerned because I thought he just wasn't paying attention, but now I look back and realize a couple things. First, they DICTATE their notes, and that technology has always been and continues to be imperfect and I've seen so many doctors this time around and read so many notes that had inconsequential errors that I have to remember that those things don't impact my life, my treatment nor my confidence in my doctors because I know that it may not be what they really meant for that note to say.

Of course it can go the other way, but we have to remember that we do all think we are special and important because this is a really big deal to us but that doc sees 50 people a day and it's just a cattle farm. It's sad that so many folks have cancer but it's life. My hospital is quadrupling in size and the new wings are 100% for cancer treatment.