PHIPA DECISION 251

Asserting the correction rights in the Act, the mother of a child requested that the hospital make several corrections to her child’s medical record regarding a previous diagnosis and references to other matters regarding the child and his father. The hospital granted some corrections, but denied two corrections related to a specific diagnosis.

In this decision, the adjudicator finds that the references to the diagnosis are professional opinions or observations made in good faith by a hospital physician, and the section 55(9)(b) exception to the duty to correct therefore applies. He upholds the decision of the hospital and dismisses the complaint.