The question: I live in Ontario and my father recently died of cancer. I was his medical advocate and I’m now the executor of his will. I feel my father’s treatment was compromised because of poor communications between the medical staff involved in his care. I would like to obtain my dad’s medical records. How do get access to them? The answer: The information contained in the medical records belongs to the patient. When the patient dies, the person who is responsible for ad

The Ontario Legislature last week passed a motion calling on the government to establish regulations limiting the fees charged for medical records, which, politicians suggest, are often requested by lawyers in auto insurance lawsuits. Ontario members of provincial parliament who spoke last Thursday in favour of the motion noted some doctors and other professionals are charging up to $100 per page of printed medical records, and insurance firms are passing on the costs to clie