My God, refusing to release the medical records? Can the parents not even request them and forward them? Unbelievable.
Recently one of my relatives died suddenly in another state, and I went to rescue the very elderly cat, who has two chronic diseases, taking the cat to my home two states away. The veterinarian’s office refused to release the cat’s records on the grounds that I had no medical power of attorney, which would have been impossible to get since the cat’s owner was dead.
The cat had been without its daily medications for over a week by this time, but the veterinarian wouldn’t even tell me how to administer the medications I found in the house when I rescued the animal, even though I had the cat owner’s death certificate and proof of our blood relationship. I had to have a friend of mine who works at a competing vet’s office in that town to strong-arm the other vet, to whom my relative had been paying big bucks for two decades, to get the records and the instructions.
This is how drunk with power all hospitals have become as a result of the destructive influence of lawsuits, even veterinary clinics.