A doctor told me verbally "your right eye retina is detaching"

but this is what he wrote to the medical records

"Retinoschisis of questionable progression, looks slight bit progressed will re-eval Monday to see if moving at all"

he never told me the part he wrote.

I asked the same doctor: "how is my left eye?"

his answer: "your left eye is ok"

This is what he wrote to the medical records

"the patient presented to monitor his lattice degeneration in his left eye,

he also has a macular edema"

he never told me I had lattice degeneration

Do you know it is perfectly legal for a doctor to write your diagnosis to the medical records and not tell you?

If I had read my medical records to learn that I had retinoschisis I would have never consented to that surgery