is it possible to view my entire medical history records?

Question

i'd like to like to look at my medical records from birth to present.
how do i do this? Will my current general doctor have my entire history or would i have to go to every hospital and clinici've ever gone to, to gather the information i want.
and will they even allow me to view it?

i've live in the same state my entire life. ----thought this might help.

Answer 1

I guess it depends on how each facility you ever went to handled their records.

I work in a school's guidance office. When we request the records for new enrollees, some schools will sent the entire cumulative file while others will just send the main information about a student. As soon as a class graduates, the files are placed in a warehouse somewhere so they don't take up room in the office. [I know that this has 0 to do with medicine but it shows you how an office would work]

You also have to consider if the older facilities that you went to even exist anymore. Some offices might have gone out of business or burned down or outsourced their files or any of those things. If you were born, grew up and lived in the same place for a number of years, it might be easy to do.

If you can go back as far as birth, you should be given access to your files. Otherwise, you'll just have to go to your current place and see what they have.

Answer 2

You will have to go to every hospital and clinic you've been to and collect it that way. There will be a lot of forms to fill out to release that information, but that would be the easiest way. Also, ask your doctor about this, he/she has an administrative staff that could answer this better than I.