Can VA docs change your medical notes?
Im being treated at the VA for a few conditions. This whole thing has been a painful and frustrating experience.
Fortunately, I’ve been able to see specialist out in the community who are doing a great job helping me. I’m still working on getting some of my records over to them, even though the VA says they have a system that makes them visible to outside providers.
I went to myhealthevet to print off what I could and I noticed that none of the records have the same diagnosis information anymore. None except the follow up from my pcm after the hospital admission.
I know they diagnosed me on paper because I had extensive testing done to validate the diagnosis. I had a lumbar puncture done twice during my stay and the most I see is a chart with numbers. Before, there was a whole copy and pasted type work up with reasoning and results. I also have the discharge paperwork that states what I was discharged for very clearly. The digital note says, “Discharged for headache”. The paperwork that I have in hand says that I was discharged for psudotumor on my brain.
Are they changing the notes?? The wording and notes are really important because they affect the paper trail to service connection.