@cookierockwell - I agree: I sometimes think, and feel, that I'm the ONLY patient who reads what they give us as visit notes, etc. The first time I visited this doctor, they had that I was a "smoker" - NO! and you can bet this could affect my insurance rates, etc etc and so on. Not to mention other less significant 'facts' that were not true. And then they said - "Oh, that doesn't matter". Right!?

So many places, not just physicians' offices, insist you accept paperwork as is, and/or "just sign here", and yet if you (and you should!) read what they insist you "just sign", you may see that you're legally agreeing to be bound by terms that are just not accurate, true or misrepresent you.

This happens with any forms that we sign. Just try insisting that something was wrong after the fact, and then be told 'well, you signed this', and good luck with that. I must say, so far, this has not happened to me, but as an educator in business and law, amongst other subjects, I would always caution my students about this aspect of daily life.

And it hasn't changed in over twenty-plus years - in fact it's probably gotten far worse as the labor force is stretched thinner and thinner, and bottom lines are the driver over humanity and basic decency.