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Peninsula Village / Re: Getting Records From PV - URGENT
« on: August 27, 2008, 01:07:47 AM »
If you know a lawyer, doctor, or therapist then see if they will write the letter. It will seem more important and have more weight. I heard this from a lawyer well versed on the subject.
Yes the fee is to discourage you until the statute of limitations. I wrote Timberlawn for my records and we got some of it but not all of it (I think). My therapist said most of it was too disturbing to bother sharing with me. She read me a few passages that made me laugh. They actually thought they had succeeded at turning me into a straight person. How grandiose of them. She said their was a great deal of daily crap in there too. Like what time I brushed my teeth or whatever. Finding what we wanted in that thick chart was hard. Mostly, she was verifying the abuse I told her about, and trying to understand my nightmares. She was not charged a fee, but that was about 15 years ago and believe me Timberlawn had lots of lawsuits facing them at that time.
If a doctor or therapist friend requests it for treatment purposes with the proper release form (HIPAA-http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/) it will probably hold more weight. That does not mean go tell your doctor or therapist to do it. Ask a friend. I found my current shrink read some screwed up testing on me and after a year, he said the results were a load of crap, and he had learned his lesson on reading other people's diagnoses. Point is you can't, and if you are a true diagnostician you won't. We finally figured out that the tester had just barfed up my old paperwork, I had given them from Timberlawn. A lesson I have learned is that I no longer ever tell a doctor about my hospitalizations. I have had that backfire once too often.
Yes the fee is to discourage you until the statute of limitations. I wrote Timberlawn for my records and we got some of it but not all of it (I think). My therapist said most of it was too disturbing to bother sharing with me. She read me a few passages that made me laugh. They actually thought they had succeeded at turning me into a straight person. How grandiose of them. She said their was a great deal of daily crap in there too. Like what time I brushed my teeth or whatever. Finding what we wanted in that thick chart was hard. Mostly, she was verifying the abuse I told her about, and trying to understand my nightmares. She was not charged a fee, but that was about 15 years ago and believe me Timberlawn had lots of lawsuits facing them at that time.
If a doctor or therapist friend requests it for treatment purposes with the proper release form (HIPAA-http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/) it will probably hold more weight. That does not mean go tell your doctor or therapist to do it. Ask a friend. I found my current shrink read some screwed up testing on me and after a year, he said the results were a load of crap, and he had learned his lesson on reading other people's diagnoses. Point is you can't, and if you are a true diagnostician you won't. We finally figured out that the tester had just barfed up my old paperwork, I had given them from Timberlawn. A lesson I have learned is that I no longer ever tell a doctor about my hospitalizations. I have had that backfire once too often.