When would it be lawful and professionally ethical in the US for a medic to sign with his sole name a medical report that the patient himself wrote?
<p>If a patient writes a medical report about himself, and gives it to his medic to sign with his sole name, under what conditions is it lawful and professionally ethical for the medic to sign it?</p>

<p>When they agree with everything written there and don't want to add anything. Signing a report didn't mean you authored it: it means you authorize it.</p>

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