Can you sue a parent for medical records?
I have a chronic illness that is hereditary. It runs on my father’s side. My Father will not tell me what illness he has. I feel as a parent you owe that to your children where health is concerned. For my own children’s saftey and mine too. Are there any legal actions I can take? It could be a life or death situation if my father chooses to remain silent. I don’t want the info to go to me just my doctor’s so they know. I suffered for years and my father never even told me he had it! If I had known it was Rheumatoid Arthritis it would have been able to be controlled. Since it is to late for me would like to know for future generations! Can you take these deadly secrets to the grave? I live in Minnesota.
The doctors were stumped for years. Insane I know! My mother thought she had heard about it previously, but wasn’t sure. Not everyone shows it. I found out by process of elimination and $25,000 LATER! !
I am an Adult and dealing with it. Just feel there is more hidden that could be key for the rest of my family.
EVERYDAY I MIGHT ADD!!!!
Your fathers medical records are confidential, just as yours are. So no, as much as it would help you to know (which I totally understand) you are not entitled to them.
You could try to have your doctor contact his to ask if there is anything he/she should be made aware of but I still would not count on it.
Your fathers medical records are confidential, just as yours are. So no, as much as it would help you to know (which I totally understand) you are not entitled to them.
You could try to have your doctor contact his to ask if there is anything he/she should be made aware of but I still would not count on it.
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I don’t follow your question… You say he won’t tell you what the hereditary disease that runs in your family is and you want to sue him for the information. Then you say that you know that it’s rheumatoid arthritis… so you already know? Or you suspect that’s what he has?
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If your father won’t tell you what he has, how do you know it’s rheumatoid arthritis?
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There would not be much you could do to control RA anyway even if you had known sooner.
If your father didn’t bother to tell you, what do you hope to gain by sueing them??
So you know you have RA. Be an adult and live with it. You can tell your children or not.
But how could you have missed seeing that it was RA? It is very very apparent to anyone with eyes when some one has it.
NO, you could not have prevented any of the damage it causes. NO cure, NOT much that helps either!
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I am in a similar situation where my mother’s flat refusal to provide her medical record has harmed my son for 12 years and myself for 17. I have had the final test to confirm a hereditary disease that if caught sooner would have saved our bodies irreversible damage, saved my mind from the knowledge that unfortunately doctors are people too, and saved our finances from the tens of thousands of dollars (with medical insurance) in relentless searching for a diagnosis.
Over the years I would see the smirk on her face as she toyed with me with her little hint here and there. Her only answer to my question of why she won’t give them to doctor’s who request them being, “people just don’t do that”. She threatened to divorce my dad if he kept asking her to supply them to the doctors, she began mistreating and ostracizing a close family friend because she dared question her decision. She succeeded with her manipulations and lies at ostracizing me after I dared join together with our son’s doctor to threaten a lawsuit for the records.
How did I HONOR my mother? By walking away and keeping her sick secret of the torture of her own grandson and child who had no legal ground to stand and not a chance in hell of turning her loyal followers because of the great gal she is.
What, many have wondered, could be in her records that she wanted to keep secret? The answer to her quest of how to take her own good daughters health, athleticism, beauty, happiness…spirit… in order to satisfy her demented unnatural competitiveness. What could ever be in any decent person’s medical record that would prevent them from saving their own grandson and child from years of torture? Absolutely nothing, at any price, is my answer.
If you ever have the misfortune of a chronic, hereditary, undiagnosed illness you should not have to hope you lucked out with a decent parent who will grace you with their signature on the HIPAA forms. When you marry the honest, compassionate, hard working, fantastic man of modest means, whom you love and loves you and the kids with every ounce of their being and who after twenty years with means less modest is still the one, rather than the parental preference popular athlete or surgeons son, it should not cost you your life.
The decision to provide medical information to your child, adult or not, should not be left to the whims of chance. The decision to intentionally withhold medical information from your child, adult or not, in order to cause harm or to save yourself from embarrassment should not be left to the moral judgment of mere parents.
I have decided to become a disgraceful daughter and am choosing to honor my mother by having her pay for her horrific actions in the lawsuit I will shortly be filing against her. I will also be honoring my mother by using her example in hopes of changing some HIPAA laws. The great gal’s actions will no longer go unnoticed, they will be used as a means of helping give some well needed “BIRTHrights” to those of us who need them.
I hope all has worked out better for you in the past couple of years.
You are in my thoughts.