Medical Records Family History

throwaway4372 · 2 Apr 2022 at 18:20

Anyone know what the deal is around accessing medical records of parents, grandparents, etc - to learn about your risk factors of whatever conditions they may have had? I've had my GP ask me if there's any family history of whatever condition but due to circumstances the GP is the one with the records and I have very little information at all. It seems I should have the right to at least ask the GP to check the records to find out rather than just asking me?

throwaway4372 · 3 Apr 2022 at 11:18

wow, so basically you don't get informed of hereditary conditions because of privacy. Seems like murder to me.

throwaway4372 · 3 Apr 2022 at 12:00

BowdonUK said:
I would say that if none of your immediate family (brothers, sisters [any of their kids], parents, grandparents) has any significant condition then you're probably as safe as anyone else.

This is kind of the point. I wouldn't know if they did have a condition I may have because they probably wouldn't tell me (they are not loving/honest/reliable/trustworthy people). So the doctor asking me is pointless. The only way to assess my risk would be to source the medical records of relevant family members. I don't need to see the records, I just need the doctor to take the extra step of bothering to look. They obviously asked me about family history because it matters, so to then accept not getting an answer, when the data is available to answer the question properly is totally unacceptable imo.

throwaway4372 · 3 Apr 2022 at 12:33

I might look into that, don't know if that would detect this particular thing the doc was asking about though, I'll ask the doc next time I'm there.