Two California women whose children died after receiving treatment at separate hospitals share an all too common complaint: difficulty accessing medical records about what went wrong. While no statistics exist to detail the frequency of these incidents, they are often at the heart of medical malpractice litigation. In fact, some advocates feel that family members are subjected to a double standard when trying to find out why a loved one died.  Robert Davis, USA Today  04/29/2008

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