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Many Australians are recording their visits to the doctor – some without permission

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par Megan Prictor, Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne
Amelia Hyatt, Senior Researcher, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

You’re at a doctor’s appointment where you are told you might have a serious illness. You will have to undergo several different tests to get a firm diagnosis. The treatment regime is complicated.

When you leave the appointment, you are worried and you feel overwhelmed with information. You realise you’re already starting to forget most of what the doctor said.

This experience is very common. Research shows people often forget, or mis-remember, what they are told during medical appointments.

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