Najib E. El Tecle, MD, MS
Dr. El Tecle is a neurosurgery resident at St. Louis University Hospital. He is interested in spine surgery and neurosurgical oncology.
Until recently, retrieving a patient's medical record was a labor-intensive process.10 A task such as accessing past lab results once required the patient or their legal designate to submit a written request to the medical records department. Several days to weeks later, numerous printed documents would be mailed to the patient. Today, accessing medical records is different; retrieving these...
