It is perfectly legal for a doctor to write your diagnosis to the medical records and not disclose it to you verbally and that can kill you. If you never request your medical records, you never know about your disease, and if the condition is hereditary you have also put your children at risk.Have you ever heard about an eye disease called Degenerative Retinoschisis? I know your answer is NO.Now read from Wikipedia: "Degenerative RetinoschisisThis type of Retinoschisis is very common with a prevalence of up to 7 percent in normal persons. It can easily be confused with retinal detachment by the non-expert observer and in difficult cases even the expert may have difficulty differentiating the two. Such differentiation is important since retinal detachment almost always requires treatment while retinoschisis never itself requires treatment and leads to retinal detachment (and hence to visual loss) only occasionally. Unfortunately, one still sees cases of uncomplicated retinoschisis treated by laser retinopexy or cryopexy in an attempt to stop its progression towards the macula. Such treatments are not only ineffective but unnecessarily risk complications."Read from an article I posted to my non-profit website www.retinoschisis.org"Confusion of the retinoschisis elevation with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment does occur and results in unnecessary laser or surgical intervention".I had this disease and consented to what I was told was a "Retinal Detachment" until I read my medical records and realized that my human rights, my human dignity, my freedom, my right of patient autonomy, my right to informed consent was violated as the doctor for almost three years never mentioned to me the word RETINOSCHISIS and therefore my decision was not an INFORMED decision.If, like it happened to me, you cannot stop a surgery you don't need because you have not checked your medical records to know your diagnosis, since writing diagnosis and not telling the patient is not MEDICAL MALPRACTICE you have been the victim of your own PATIENT MALPRACTICE.Not reading your medical records is Patient MalpracticeNot seeking for a second opinion is Patient MalpracticeNot applying the LOGGIC principle of the informed consent is Patient MalpracticeNot being an e-patient is Patient MalpracticeLet me ask you this question: do you know the purpose of the informed consent to surgery?your answer most likely will be: "That is to protect the doctor".Wrong!!!! . That is to protect YOU. But the way you are doing it you are only protecting the doctor.I invented the LOGGIC model to ensure a patient's fully informed consent: L Listen to the doctor's diagnosis, procedure, risks, alternatives and benefits.O Obtain a copy of your medical records and compare to what you were told.G Google the diagnosis, procedure, risks, alternatives, benefits, and post-op expectations.G Get a second opinion with some better expert.I Information is validated and certified.C Consent is legally signed.I never "listened" because I was never told about Retinoschisis and I never "Obtained" my medical records to discover that the doctor was withholding important information for my informed decision making.Writing important information to the medical records and not telling the patient is DOCTOR CRIME PRACTICE and yet, it is legal.Read inside how your PATIENT MALPRACTICE allows a doctor to get away with his DOCTOR CRIME PRACTICE, Shit the focus from DOCTOR MALPRACTICE to PATIENT MALPRACTICE.