DEAR DR. GOTT: Does a patient have the right to question his or her medical records without retribution? I questioned my records after finding errors in them with the doctor’s head nurse. She corrected some of them but said she would have the office manager contact me in regards to other errors. The office manager refused to call to discuss my concerns.

For example, I got turned down twice for long-term-care insurance because my records were not up-to-date and accurate. As a matter of fact, the head nurse told me that my records had not been updated in three or four years. My records indicated at one time I had congestive heart failure, which I never did. They coded my wife’s blood work with my identity. These are only a few examples that I discovered. I am sure there were more that I was unaware of.
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