I agree with the suggestion to get the old records to the new dentist. When I was working in a doctor's office, we would send or receive a request (filled out and signed by the patient) for their records (for changing doctors or seeing a specialist) and the offices of the doctors involved would handle copying off the old file and sending the copy over to the other office. I gather that's standard procedure, office-to-office transfer -- I've heard from some people that they actually encountered resistance trying to get copies of their own records from a doctor (whether to look over themselves or to manually carry to their new doctor).
So -- I'd be in favor of enquiring on your next visit on whether you could get the new dentist's office to handle acquiring your old records. Not least because there might be a sort of passive-aggressive pleasure in letting that other dentist know she's driven you off for good, without having to confront her yourself in a face-to-face meeting. (Of course, then you may be surprised with a phone call from your ex-dentist, demanding an explanation for why you left. But then again, if you don't let her and her office know you've fired her as your dentist, you may get a few phone calls from office staff trying to get you in there for your next appointment -- I had that problem with the obnoxious dentist a few years back. The office staff kept misspelling my name (apparently "correcting" it back to the misspelling after I'd had a staff member supposedly amend it on my records) and calling me up repeatedly to confirm an appointment I'd already cancelled.)
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Date: 2012-03-21 04:06 pm (UTC)So -- I'd be in favor of enquiring on your next visit on whether you could get the new dentist's office to handle acquiring your old records. Not least because there might be a sort of passive-aggressive pleasure in letting that other dentist know she's driven you off for good, without having to confront her yourself in a face-to-face meeting. (Of course, then you may be surprised with a phone call from your ex-dentist, demanding an explanation for why you left. But then again, if you don't let her and her office know you've fired her as your dentist, you may get a few phone calls from office staff trying to get you in there for your next appointment -- I had that problem with the obnoxious dentist a few years back. The office staff kept misspelling my name (apparently "correcting" it back to the misspelling after I'd had a staff member supposedly amend it on my records) and calling me up repeatedly to confirm an appointment I'd already cancelled.)