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Requesting Pathology but they don't want to release...
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 10 5:21am | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
@rlpostrp
"You are entitled by LAW to receive any and all test reports, treatment and progress notes, etc. that any health care provider has on you"
He is asking for the physical slides themselves. That is not so clear.
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@daveys
He does not have to have physical slides - they can provide digitalized scans on CD or they can send those files to him.
Even if he wants physical ones he should be able to get them. He might need to sign bunch of papers and perhaps some legal documents that shield hospital from any liability if slides do get damaged or lost, but there should be no ban or releasing them.
@daveys
hoops...I missed that: the slides themselves are what he wants. Well...
He can ask to have those slides mailed to another physician for review and a report, but yes, the slides are likely and interpretively the property of the Lab. BUT...that would be an interesting court case because the tissue on those slide is "HIS" tissue. Unless the fine print of any disclosures document specified that the slides are, and will remain, the property of the health care institution that prepared them, he could have a case. If he signed-away those rights in the fine print (I doubt it), then the slides remain the property of the health care institution. "Interesting" situation.
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@daveys - In his OP, he is asking for the slide image files, not the slides themselves. Additionally, he's asking for text based or Samtools package files, none of which are slides or organic samples. They are merely data or data compression files. No reason these should not be available.