I chose the "most but not all of it" option on the poll, but the truth is, while I'm not likely to ASK to see all of it, I want to be ABLE to see every little stinking bit if I want to. Does that make sense?

I do find it handy to have copies of various reports and labs and such, and I occasionally ask my PCP for copies of the reports the specialists send her. But I've never asked to see (or have) my entire chart.

I was glad I had started collecting my lab reports this week when I found out that my APTT was twice the high end of normal and got referred to my hematologist (who really just monitors me for MGUS normally). I thought I remembered something about a platelet function test earlier in my mystery illness journal, and I had to dig through a two inch file of blood test results to find a lab report from November 2007, when the APTT was also elevated (although not as much as currently). Very handy. The hematologist's assistant was very grateful when I faxed that over to her.

Anyway, fwiw. :-)