39.4. An optometrist must respond promptly, at the latest within 20 days of its receipt, to any request made by a patient to have information that is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated or unjustified corrected or deleted in any document concerning the patient. He must also respect the patient’s right to make written comments in the record.
An optometrist must give the patient, free of charge, a duly dated copy of the document or part of the document filed in the record so that the patient may verify that the information has been corrected or deleted or, where applicable, give the patient an attestation stating that the patient’s written comments have been entered in the record.