However, the results could come much more quickly through an e-mail, a secure website or an application on the patient's phone. In the past, a doctor's office often only notified patients if there ...

What happens when patients beat their doctors to their test results. By Christopher Medrano June 15, 2023. Reprints. Adobe. ... Now, my patients often see the results before I do, ...

Doctors say that patients are now receiving news about potentially terminal disease, or other, less catastrophic but confusing, test results from patient portals before they have a chance to ...

On April 5, a federal rule went into effect that requires health care providers to give patients like Ramsey electronic access to their health information without delay upon request, at no cost. Many ...

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Test Results: Too Important To Wait For A Doctor's Call : ... Patients who've gone along with some doctors' "don't call us, we'll call you" approach to medical care need to snap out of it.

Patients may obtain their test results directly from the laboratory that produced them, without having to go through their doctors, under regulations announced Monday by the Obama administration.

Primary care physicians and patients can command the full attention of one another when they’re ensconced in their offices or homes, undistracted by the bustle typical of a busy doctor’s office.

While we examined judgments based on beliefs — not behaviors — we might expect similar results when patients share behaviors that their doctors do not approve of, like drinking or drug use.