Once information is entered into the medical office computer, it is widely available. It’s almost amusing to hear the med people ask about stuff that some employee in another office put into the records. Scary in a way too, since the patient has no control over what some scrubs-wearing gruntling types into the big database in the sky.
Not just mary-ja-wana but everything you say to them is in the system and available to every low level clerk to read.
You think they are really keeping that stuff confidential?
The funny thing is that if you move to a new doctor they will send you a bill for "transferring your records" when it supposedly is in the national data base system.