Pat downs because of CPAP machines

[BlackSpinner]

Hawthorne,

I'm not afraid of surgery, I trust the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, and the pain pills. Also, it was done for my well being.

Well you should be - there is no guarantees you will return when being put under, the anesthesiologist is a highly technical specialist but OSA can always complicate things. Even if it doesn't it is still a risk. Plus there is the risk of catching C-difficile in any hospital. Do you know that per year around 800,000 people in the US die because they sought medical attention (and not because of the problem they went for)?

[LinkC]

Federal law dictates that the generating facility is the owner of a medical record. HOWEVER, the patient, the subject of the medical record, has a legal right to a COPY of that medical record.

But a prescription is NOT a medical record. It is a communication between the doctor and another provider.

Your doctor will include a notation of what was prescribed in the record of your visit. Very rarely will there be an actual photocopy of it included in your record. (And a COPY of a prescription is not valid...that's why the original goes--via you--to the provider. However, faxing is changing all that.)