Series 10 - Patient files

9.40 m of textual records and graphic materials (87 boxes)

This series contains a selection of MacIntosh’s patient files from several medical practices – the Toronto General Hospital, the Princess Margaret Hospital, Sunnybrook Hospital and the Hart House Clinic for student athletes at the University of Toronto. Included in this series are patient files for MacIntosh’s own practice at the University of Toronto’s Medical Arts Building as well as patient files and case information for the many litigations and Workers Compensation Board/Workplace Safety Insurance Board cases for which MacIntosh served as an expert medical consultant. Lastly, included in this series are a set of patient files from Drs. Allan Gross and John C. Cameron, two younger doctors who worked in the orthopedic field with MacIntosh.

Most of the files in this series contain patient intake information, background medical charts, diagnoses, treatment plans and follow-up reports. Occasionally, the patient files will include photographs and x-rays. The series is arranged in order to reflect how MacIntosh kept his patient files under several different systems. MacIntosh arranged some of his patient files based on the injury or affliction facing the patient. Other files were arranged alphabetically, and many were arranged using a numbered system. The patient files belonging to patients seen at the Hart House Clinic were also kept separately by MacIntosh.

The series also includes several different sets of patient indices, which are presumably index cards for every patient MacIntosh treated. Most of the indices are alphabetical or chronological, however there are several miscellaneous or misfiled boxes are patient index cards.

The patient files in this series represent only a fraction of the total patient files MacIntosh kept from his medical practices. During the appraisal process it was decided that only about one tenth of the total number of patent files held by MacIntosh could be permanently kept. An effort was made to keep patient files based on either the type of injury or affliction being treated, the function of the file – whether for legal or insurance purposes, as well as to keep patient files from the entire span of MacIntosh’s career.

All files within this series are restricted for 150 years from the last day of file creation in accordance with the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA).