· July 20, 2010 2:40 pm. July 20, 2010 2:40 pm. We’ve all seen our doctors scribbling in our charts after the exam. Now new research is exploring whether it’s a good idea to let a patient read the doctor’s notes, reports the Informed Patient column in today’s Wall Street Journal. A study currently under way, called the OpenNotes project, is looking at what happens ….