Ask someone who was in the hospital (Score 1)

The days when "your doctor" visited you in the hospital are gone. Hospitals doctors take over when you enter - especially in an emergency. Not having your complete history of drugs, symptoms and contact numbers can be very dangerous. Recent experience tells me that hospital staff react to the diagnosis given at the point of entry which can result in the automatic administration drugs that could kill you merely because the staff doesn't have your complete medical history. Any story about medical records must include stories about how the American medical system really works today - not how the "House" TV series pretends. It is dangerous to enter a hospital alone today. For some reason we Americans think the world works like we see on television. There are more obstacles to getting your medical records than you think. You not only need to have access and understand your medical records, you need an advocate who will be your spokesperson when and if you enter the "power" of a hospital's administrative grasp. I had a sister-in-law given a diagnosis of schizophrenia on entering a hospital under an emergency attack that had nothing to do with that disease. Because the hospital automatically administered a "calming" medication for such a diagnosis and that medication interacted with a medication she was taking, she became extremely violent and tried to kill herself. I give that horrible story because it shows how fast a medical staff should have access to your medical records in order to not make potentially fatal decisions.