OK. I have been wanting to ask this, and I wonder why nobody
really asked this in sgforums.
Can anyone enlighten me about why letters from hospitals and
clinics have to be sealed? Why do we not have the right to read
letters that have got to do with our own medical conditions?
For issue of confidentiality and privacy? Well, the letters were
often given to the patients themselves to pass to the next doctor,
so it is up to the patient himself or herself to safeguard his or
her own privacy. Is that not logical?
Just like when we are hospitalised, if we dare touch those case
files of our own, we would either be chided by the nurses or told
sternly that we are not supposed to look into them. But why? These
are records of our own conditions, and since doctors and nurses are
often not very interested to give you adequate attention to update
your medical conditions, why forbid the patients to take a look at
their own case files?
Anyone, please enlighten.
