Question

3. A patient requests his x-rays to take home and show to the family. Role-play how you would handle this matter.

4. Privacy means many different things in a medical setting. Distinguish between the patient’s right to physical privacy and privacy of privileged communication.

5. As a medical assistant, privileged communication includes your knowledge of the patient. Your office has a famous celebrity as a patient. A well-known newspaper reporter calls and asks you to go to lunch with her. How will you handle this matter?

6. Your office has a strict policy with regard to release of information in health records, and despite a state statute allowing patients access to their records, the physicians you work for will not give patients their records. An obnoxious attorney storms into the office and demands access to your files. The patient has signed a release form. You are at the front desk and the office is full of patients. What do you do?

7. Your office has a relaxed policy with regard to the release of information in health records. A patient asks to see his record. You know that there is information in the record regarding telephone calls from the patient’s relatives that would interfere with the family relationship. The physician is away for a week. How would you handle the matter?

8. A health record has been subpoenaed and a court order accompanies it. The physician has removed important parts of the record. You know that this information is missing. The office sends you to court as the keeper of the record. You must testify about the completeness of the record. What are you going to say?

9. There is an error in a health record that has been subpoenaed. This is a good-faith error and should be corrected. It has to do with the information the plaintiff is interested in and could be damaging to the defendant–physician if changed, but also damaging if unchanged. The physician asks you to blot out the error, write in the correct information and put the paper, with surrounding papers, through the copy machine. What do you do?

Answer 1

3) Health practitioners are generally required to provide a copy of a patient 's X-ray film and other records upon request but the patient has to make a reasonable charge for it.Some of health practitioner permits to borrow the original films.It is now the patient choice who he wants to show and Consult for the second opinion or further discussion for the same.