PEDIATRICS Vol. 59 No. 4 April 1977, pp. 636
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Nicholas Cunningham M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 100th Street and 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10029

The "Overview Statement on Medical Records," which appeared in the August 1975 issue, overlooks the needs of patients and parents. The Committee on Standards of Child Health Care has noted that patients may have multiple sources of care and that the population is more mobile. It seems not to have observed that people want to know and learn more about their state of health and care. The doctor, clinic, or any one institution that owns the medical record is unlikely ever to be "the one institution which gives a complete and continuous documentation of the patient's medical history."