Thank you so much, that's really helpful. The friend is no longer a cop, but was.
Hmm. I think the only option for what I want to do then is have the main character have a copy of their 1993 medical records in a folder. Does it seem unlikely to you that he'd managed to get a copy back then?
It doesn't seem unlikely to me that he'd have at least some of his own records... I have copies of some of my medical records from that time period, but it tends to be results for labwork or imaging tests. Still, I don't think it would be hard to come up with an explanation... maybe the character wanted a copy so he would know exactly what he was treated with because that makes him feel safer/ satisfies his need to be a control freak/ whatever makes sense for his personality. There could be a summary of a doctor visit or course of treatment ... for instance, I saw an allergist who wrote an extremely detailed multi-page letter about everything we tested and talked about as a report to my regular doctor (not all drs. take the time for that, but I bet a psychiatrist might).
At one point I wanted to get a copy of my entire record so I could review it and take it to a different dr., but the clinic wanted to charge me something ridiculous for photocopying it, and at the time I was too broke.
If federal service and medical "jackets" are kept separately and chances are that your character would have a copy of his own records.
That said that doesn't mean the friend will have access to it, that's usually the sort of thing one keeps locked up. I learned the hard way that one should keep that sort of thing out of the potential reach of a prying girlfriend.
Not a cop, but I am a state government worker in human resources at a hospital; here in Alaska, at least, we are required by law to keep medical files separate from personnel files (and all other files, for that matter
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Hmm. I think the only option for what I want to do then is have the main character have a copy of their 1993 medical records in a folder. Does it seem unlikely to you that he'd managed to get a copy back then?
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At one point I wanted to get a copy of my entire record so I could review it and take it to a different dr., but the clinic wanted to charge me something ridiculous for photocopying it, and at the time I was too broke.
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If federal service and medical "jackets" are kept separately and chances are that your character would have a copy of his own records.
That said that doesn't mean the friend will have access to it, that's usually the sort of thing one keeps locked up. I learned the hard way that one should keep that sort of thing out of the potential reach of a prying girlfriend.
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