A thirty-five-year-old female is injured in a traffic accident. Her medical records may be used in a court of law to

Medical records can document pre-existing conditions that might have contributed to or explained an injury, so they may help show another possible cause. They can also record the injuries and medical findings that support the cause attributed to the accident. They would not, by themselves, suggest that she was not involved in the accident.

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