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Survivor 5280, I agree that it is important to download and read the post visit notes on the doctor's patient portal. There are times when I have had to correct the doctor concerning something that was incorrect. I don't think it was a dictation error but rather him starting with a template and not adjusting all of the right variables concerning my appointment or exam.

I gather from your first paragraph that you are uncircumcised but that he noted you were circumcised. I'm betting that probably 90% of his patients are circumcised based on the prevalence of circumcision among American men of an age that they have developed prostate cancer, and that the template he works from probably notes the patient is circumcised. Frankly I would be flattered if one of my urologists noted my penis was "well formed", but the best that's been said of my shrunken member is "normal, circumcised". Increasingly the skin is rolling over and it wouldn't surprise me if some future urologist noted me as uncircumcised.

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There's worse things he could have called my penis!

Template or not, my point really is that doctors are humans and if the template or dictation or whatever causes errors in the notes then I brush it off, there's bigger fish to fry. The notes don't necessarily translate to treatment options or change outcomes, those would be discussed with the patient and can be corrected. If he'd said "well, because you are circumcised we want to go this route..." then I would have corrected him and dropped my drawers to prove it :).