Would You Want to Read What Your Doctors Write?

Of course you would. And 95% of the patients surveyed agreed with you. And even stranger, so do most physicians. At least, that's what Tom Delbanco and his colleagues asserted in a questionnaire-based study using Open Notes, a system that allows patients to review all of the notes there docs are scribing.

View the abstract here from the Annals of Internal Medicine

But how much open-ness is too much? Will the doctors be reluctant to be blatantly honest in their assessment of patients if they know it will be read? And will patients fear being completely open when they know that their chart is more visible now - even if it's just to them?

Here's a quick article from the Atlantic on the topic.

Let's hear your comments...