I get DVD's of every study I have done. No charge. There were plans, way back in the beginning of 'electronic medical records', for everyone to be issued a drive (of some kind) to keep your medical info on. You were supposed to bring that with you to every appointment, and the staff would read that 'drive', and know what you were there for, and what drugs and treatment you were getting/had gotten. The system would flag for drug interactions, and doctor shopping would be dead, gone, impossible. And then the politicians screwed it all up. *shrug* Entrusting the average American with something as small as a thumb drive for medical information is just asking for trouble. If it's not BIG, it'll get lost, or the spawn will use it, and erase it, or post it all to social media.
Also, sharing medical information is a great sounding thing, but with so many different medical records software companies, achieving that has not been easy, and can be impossible, without going the 'long way' around. *shrug* It could be worse. The local hospital had two distinct records systems, and they were completely incompatible with each other. And they called that progress... It took them over a year to get the data into the system they had chosen. They kept having runs trying to convert chunks of the data over, and ran into problems. Some problems were pretty massive from what I remember someone saying. They were actually considering hiring a room full of monkeys to try to write a Shakespeare novel, oh, wait, they were thinking of hiring a room full of unemployed office peeps to literally have two screens on their desk, and go from one to the other, transcribing the data into the new system. They were that desperate, but they got it done, finally. Sure, it's a mess, but it generally works fairly well...
