Your records exist to make your care safer — and privacy is a clinical obligation, not a courtesy.
This service explains what medical records Chongqing West District Hospital keeps about you, who may see them and when, how consent to share information works, how clinical photography and imaging are handled, and what you are entitled to ask for. It sets out principles and process rather than quoting the law: the applicable local regulation governs the formal procedure, and we say so clearly rather than pretending otherwise.
You are entitled to ask what is held about you, who has seen it, and for a copy. Answers should come in writing, and a request about your own record should never feel like an accusation.
- What is recorded, and why
- Who may see it, and when
- Consent to share, explained
- How data is protected
Records that are written down, limited, and answerable
Three commitments sit behind every document in your file. None of them is unusual, and all three have to be true at once for a record to be worth keeping.
Record what happens
Every contact is documented: what you reported, what was examined, what was decided and why. Test results, imaging, histology and clinical photographs are filed with the same record, so that the next clinician reads evidence rather than somebody’s memory of it.
Limit who sees it
Access is granted rather than assumed. Staff work under named accounts scoped to their role, and access is logged every time a record is opened. Need-to-know is not an obstacle to care; it is the reason the record can be kept at all.
Answer when you ask
You may ask what is held, who has looked at it, and for a copy; you may ask for a factual error to be corrected, and for your own statement to be added when you disagree. Requests are answered in writing, and a refusal is explained rather than asserted.
The clinicians accountable for how records are kept
The leadership of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center — aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, skin and laser care, and dermatology — working inside Chongqing West District Hospital, a tertiary general hospital. The medical review of this site is led by the Deputy Director and head of aesthetic surgery, and every lead below works to the same rules on consent, photography and documentation.
Tongchun Mao, MD (毛彤春)
Medical Reviewer · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of aesthetic surgery, and the medical reviewer for the patient information on this site; detailed facial surgery, facial rejuvenation and surgical contouring, performing over 700 operations a year.
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Shaoliang Wang, MD (王韶亮)
Plastic Surgery · Center Director
Center Director and the surgical backstop of the team: revision of failed operations from elsewhere, excision of skin tumours, complex wound repair, and the judgement of when a plan should not proceed. 20+ years of tertiary-hospital surgery.
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Ke He, MD (何锞)
Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of skin and laser aesthetics; she works from photographic records taken to a consistent protocol, and treats consent for those images as a separate conversation from consent for treatment. 20+ years in laser and aesthetic dermatology.
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Yongbo Jia, MD (贾勇波)
Dermatology · Deputy Director
Deputy Director and head of dermatology; he keeps the record of a specimen continuous from clinic to laboratory and back, so that the laboratory report is never separated from the lesion it describes. Trained at the Institute of Dermatology, CAMS.
View profile →Records, consent and data protection — explained plainly
These guides are the education behind the service: what records exist and what each one is for, how need-to-know access works, what consent to share actually authorises, how photographic and imaging records are handled, how personal and health data is protected, and how to request, carry or correct your own record.
What Medical Records the Hospital Keeps About You
The documents made during your care — clinical notes, imaging, histology, clinical photographs, implant records and the operative report — and what each one is actually for.
Read the guide →Who Can See Your Medical Records, and When
Access to your records is limited to the people treating you and to the tasks that require it. This guide explains the need-to-know principle and when information may be disclosed without your consent.
Read the guide →Consent to Share Information, and What Changes When Family Ask
What a meaningful consent to share information contains, why a signature is not the same as an agreement, and what happens when a relative asks about your care on your behalf.
Read the guide →Clinical Photography and Imaging in Plastic Surgery
Why photographs are taken in plastic surgery, how consent for photography differs from consent for publication, and how clinical images are stored and used.
Read the guide →How Your Personal and Health Data Is Protected
Access controls, audit trails and staff confidentiality obligations — what actually protects health data in a hospital, and what to ask when you want to check that it does.
Read the guide →Requesting Copies of Your Medical Records
How to ask for a copy of your records, what you usually receive, the timescales involved, and what to do if part of a request is refused or simply delayed.
Read the guide →We will not describe your rights as a favour
You are entitled to ask what is held about you, who has seen it, and why. You are entitled to a copy, to have a factual error corrected, and to have your own statement placed on file when you disagree with an opinion. We will not present any of that as a special concession, and we will not pretend that a written policy is the same thing as a working control. Where the formal process is set by the applicable local regulation, we will say so rather than paraphrase it as though it were our own promise.
You are entitled to ask
Contact the medical records team to ask what is held about you, request a copy, ask who has accessed your file, or raise a concern about how your information has been handled. We will set out the process, what you will receive, and what the applicable local regulation requires of us — in plain language, before you commit to anything.
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