As a surgeon in HMC i was surprised to read the complaints about the private clinics in doha.i had always assumed that due to the miniscule amount of work they have (compared to hamad). their record keeping and patient tracking would be far better.
hmc has a very good record keeping system.all your files within last 3 years can be retreived within a few hours on request.you might face some difficulties with appointments at hmc, but consider the fact that it is the only real hospital in this country and has one of the busiest trauma units in the world(as per 2005 -2006 statistics).HMC has received american accreditation now as mentioned before in this forum. smart health cards are to be implemented from this year on i beleieve which will contain your relevant medical data
PRIVATE CLINICS certainly should improve their record keeping . its the only way they are going to be able to retain patients.a centralised record keeping of private clinics is not feasible here since there are so many of them.
wishing you all good health .