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Convincing GP to remove/change false accusation in medical record
2015-12-28 22:59:48 Post No. 16614948
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Convincing GP to remove/change false accusation in medical record
Anonymous
2015-12-28 22:59:48
Post No. 16614948
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This is a long story, but I'll try to keep it short.
In 2011, while staying with my father overseas, I was told out of the blue by my brother-in-law that I'd molested their son, my nephew, and was no longer welcome at their house.
The police were involved, spoke to me about it for less than 10 minutes, and I've never heard from them again.
I returned to my home country shortly afterwards, as my whole father's side of the family seemed to believe the accusation, so there was no point in staying.
Anyway, I recently got a copy of my medical file and discovered that while I was in the US, my caregiver, who was abusive and negligent growing up, had gone to my GP and told her there were two accusations, and that they both were true. This was written on my permanent medical record, as well as in a referral the GP made to a mental health service.
I've since got a copy of the file from the mental health service, and the one referral has spawned dozens of documents from various clinicians over the years repeatedly mentioning multiple accusations, and making speculations about "sexual identity" and "sexual identity problems". Of course, over the past 4 years that I've been in and out of interaction with the service, I was told nothing about this, or of how many people in the service knew. It's a concern, because obviously people assume accusations like this are true by default.
But that's a separate problem. First I want to approach the GP about either removing any reference in their file to it entirely, or at least correcting the documents to refer to it as one accusation. We can apply to correct our information, but they have no obligation to do it. The best I can hope for is the wanted corrections to be attached.
What would you do to convince this GP, who's been repeatedly poisoned against me by my manipulative caregiver throughout my childhood (she would do this with everyone, presumably to hide her abusive tendencies), to remove or alter the information?
