Charlotte Blease

Associate Professor of Health Informatics, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden

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Charlotte Blease PhD is associate professor of health informatics at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden, and research affiliate at the Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. She has written more than 130 academic articles on healthcare, is coauthor of the book The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick (2024) and author of the forthcoming book ‘Dr Bot’ (Yale University Press, 2025), and regularly writes for a variety of online publications. Twitter/X: @crblease

Written by Charlotte Blease

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Are mental health patients entitled to see their medical notes?

From strep throat to cancer care, access to doctors’ notes has empowered patients. But is the same true in mental health?

by Charlotte Blease