If they are your copies and not the doctor's originals, under California Health & Safety Code 123110, they are yours to do with what you wish.
X-Rays do not count as professional photography. They are considered a medical record, just as an EKG readout or a sonagram would be considered a record rather than an image.
What Spotts said is completely correct. The caveat is, if you do not have your own copies, and the only copies that exist are with the medical facility, you are not considered the owner of those images (even though the images are of you), and would still have to fill out a release of information form (and probably pay a reproduction fee) in order to get copies. Makes no sense, but you can thank HIPAA for that.
Thank you! Most of the MDs who ordered things never bothered to collect them--I get them done, I bring the films, they look at them and give them back to me.
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X-Rays do not count as professional photography. They are considered a medical record, just as an EKG readout or a sonagram would be considered a record rather than an image.
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