[mjaneangels@aolcom]

You don't know anything about medicine, do you? The doctor gives me a slip of paper to give to the x-ray technician telling him to take an x-ray of my right knee (or whatever). The tech never sees my medical records. Doesn't want to. Doesn't need to. He doesn't know or care why the doctor wants an x-ray. I don't sign any consent for the tech.

While much of the time your simple scene is correct, there is one item you do not address in this scene. Why would your doctor have you go take an x-ray unless there was something he could learn from it? He could not learn from it unless the x-ray (medical records) was shared with him as well as the interpretation (another medical record).

[Iwo Jima]

The doctor who orders the x-ray always has the right and many would say the responsibility to view the film to see if he agrees with the interpretation by the radiologist or x-ray technician. That's not an issue and not a problem. I have NEVER heard anyone say that there was any problem whatsoever with a doctor viewing a x-ray which he ordered.