Medical records...help!?

[anney]

Hi MamaDuke,
Is she looking for some information in particular or just in general? If she is looking for anything in general I suggest she state something like - All documents generated and filed in my medical record for the inpatient admission from 6/6/2000 to 10/06/2000.
but if it is something in particular she wanted to know then I would need to know what it was to tell you what to ask for. For example, information on a c/section would be on a form called something like an operation record which would have the doctors handwritten notes about the operation and in some hospitals, surgeons also dictate a detailed operation report which might be typed. Specific information about the baby would be on a form called a neonatal record. One of the midwives might be able to help a bit more as they would know the names of the forms they might write on.
the other thing is, she could get her GP to write to the hospital and ask. sometimes hospitals will more readily give information to other doctors to pass onto their patients. As lots of things that are in medical records are indecipherable to most of us ordinary human beings!
oops - forgot to say I am not a doula or birth attendant but worked in medical records for many years