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I recently (November 2018) had a papsmear done by Dr. Van Der Westhuizen at his rooms in The Clinton Clinic and the results came back with a high cell count. He then did a Colposcopy and sent it for further testing. Results came back and he suggested a histerectomy a.s.a.p. I wanted to wait untill after the holiday season as we allready planned to go away with the family and didnt want to sit around for 6-8 weeks recovering. I spoke to other women about histerectomies and they all told me to get a second opinion. So I phoned his rooms requesting the lab results to further my own research on what to do and to give it to the Dr. I had chosen to get my second opinion on. The receptionist said he told her to tell me to get it from Ampath directly. I phoned them and they said they cant without the Dr.'s concent. I phoned the rooms again furious as they are well aware of the fact that the labs won't give me the results. Dr. Van Der Westhuizen refuses to give me my test results because I want to get a second opinion. I lashed out on the receptionist because she just didn't care and I cannot believe that my basic human rights are being violated because a Dr. doesn't like the fact that I am asking questions. It is my body, my decision to get a second opinion before someone just operates on me and for him to refuse to give me a copy of my lab results is borderline insane!!! I pay my medical aid which in turn pays for those tests and I see no reasobale reason why hy has any right to withold that information from me!