You are entitled to your own complete medical record.

Not a summary.

Not a discharge letter.

The record — nursing notes, physician notes, consult notes, orders, flowsheets, the lot.

As a parent you are entitled to your minor child’s record, and that includes a child who has died.

It is not a favor and it is not a lawsuit and you do not need a lawyer and you do not have to explain why you want it.

In most states they have thirty days.