Personal Medical History Record
Conditions and diagnoses in your own words, with the date each was first noted.
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Your own copy of your own medical history: what you take, what you were told, what was measured and when you next go back.
Medical records exist, but they are held by practices and hospitals in systems you cannot read at three in the morning. These sheets are the copy you keep. Not one of them contains a dosage, an interval, a normal range or anything resembling advice — every figure is one you write down from what your own doctor, nurse or pharmacist told you, and the sheets are built to be taken to an appointment and read from.
20 resources · every one as a printable and fillable PDF in A4 and US Letter, and online · 10 with an Excel workbook.
Conditions and diagnoses in your own words, with the date each was first noted.
What you are taking now, in the words printed on the label.
Every appointment in date order, with who was seen and where.
What happened and when, written close to the time rather than remembered later.
Every reading as the device showed it, with the date and time it was taken.
Admission and discharge dates, ward and consultant in one place.
Every test and scan in one dated list, with where it was done.
Each substance with what actually happened, in your own account.
Each repeat item with the date it was last ordered and collected.
What was given and when, in one list instead of four.
Every visit in date order, with the practice and the dentist or hygienist you saw.
Every test in date order with the practice and the optometrist.
Each session with the date, the physiotherapist and where it took place.
What was paid, when and to whom, with the receipt ticked off.
Every referral with the date it was made and who made it.
Each test with the date, where it was done and who did it.
Who you are and who should be telephoned, in order.
The papers and details worth taking, gathered before the morning of admission.
The questions you actually meant to ask, written down before you go.
Every request with the date it went and who it went to.
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