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Re: Credit reports anybody?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Date:
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Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:36:34 GMT
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(c576653@cclabs.missouri)nomorespam(.edu)
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Beth Reiten wrote:
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> Mike Stanley wrote:
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> > Beth Reiten <breiten@net-art.de> wrote:
> > (rant deleted to save everybody's sanity)
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> > I hear you. I needed my medical records from a hospital once that
> > wanted to charge me the same kind of outrageous fee. When I told them
> > I wouldn't pay them a buck a page to make a nickel photocopy so I'd
> > like to take them to Kinko's and copy them myself they said no. Don't
> > remember the reason.
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> The reason? They "own" your records, and you leaving with them is tantamount to theft.
> Just for fun: try touching your file the next time you have an appointment!
I've been faced with this insanity twice.
Once I had to convince a doc-in-the-box clinic to give me x-ray films to
take to my real doctor. They eventually agreed with the provision that
I would bring them back next time I was near. I figured that I paid an
awful lot for them to not be my property.
The other time, I had to get records from a dermatologist to a new
doctor for a meeting the next day. They would have mailed them, but not
quick enough. I just took them and left - they chose not to call the
police. I wasn't concerned with their property rights at the time - it
was about a decade ago - and it doesn't matter now. I was really ticked
off at the time though. They didn't even give me a price to copy them,
they just said they wouldn't let me have them.
--
Sincerely,
Christopher L. Weeks
central Missouri, USA
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| (...) The reason? They "own" your records, and you leaving with them is tantamount to theft. Just for fun: try touching your file the next time you have an appointment! Beth (28 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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