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My patient leaned over and stared, her eyes wide open but not at me. She was paying attention to her laboratory test results on the clinic computer screen.

Natural though it seems, the patients' laboratory results in public sector hospital aren't supposed to be released to them. You'd better bring a notebook and a pen if you want a copy of the results. For that matter, the laboratory results sound like PowerPoint slides of a lecturer, who felt that keeping the lecture materials from the students is the way to make students pay attention to his authoritative lecture.

Won't you hate it when you can't concentrate on the lecture while you're busy with copying the slide materials? That happens with the patient who can't get access to the laboratory test reports. It's hard to argue who owns the laboratory results. Harder to fathom are the reasons of denying their free access to a copy of their health information.

I can't think of any.