<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Willis, James</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medical records: use and abuse</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004-09-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">725-725</style></pages><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">54</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">506</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Heidi Tranberg, Jem Rashbass Medical records: use and abuse Radcliffe Medical Press 2004 PB, 173 pp, £24.95, 1 85775 604 5In the beginning the patient told the doctor a secret. And, behold, the doctor kept the secret in his head until he died or forgot it. Later on, the patient told the doctor a secret, and the doctor wrote an aide mémoire for himself in cryptic handwriting, abbreviations (or in Latin), and destroyed it when he retired. Later again, the patient told the doctor a secret and the doctor wrote it out clearly in a record folder shared with his or her partners and a nurse or two, which the receptionist saw but couldn't talk about outside on pain of losing her job, and which followed the patient about like a bloodhound for the rest of their life. And now, the patient tells the doctor a secret and the doctor can do one of two things: she can type it into a practice computer system, soon, under the government's Information Strategy for the Modern NHS 1998–2005 to be amalgamated into a national electronic health record, or — she can keep the secret in her head until she …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>