YOU KNOW THAT FILE YOU KEEP FOR YOUR TAXES? CREATE ONE FOR YOUR HEALTH CARE RECORDS. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE

Pleading note from frustrated practicing pathologist.

If you have biopsies done or any tissue taken out at surgery, a pathology report will be generated. Keep copies of these for your files. All records of any procedure done on you, any tissue taken off your body and sent to a lab. Do this for your own protection and to save the harried pathologist from chasing down all these reports. With HIPAA regulations, I can't request slides directly. You have to request them. I'll have more on this topic in another post on how you can keep complete pathology records for yourself. You are doing yourself a big favor.