Medical Long Form

On another note:
When you go to your doctor do you ask for a copy of the file they made?
If not, why?
It's YOUR file, you paid good money or your insurance company that you pay did, so why not?
If they send it out to be typed or entered into a digital file then ask for a copy of either form of the report when it's done!
The same with a hospital stay.
Ask for a copy of the file! ALL of it including xrays, CT's or MRI's!

As a lot of you know I've gone through the battle with cancer, then freaking brain surgery! I have copies of ALL of my medical history since March 2008 where it all started with my primary care physician. Really! The day I went in complaining of headaches and a lump on the side of my neck!
The rest is history but because my doctor is a member of a hospital medical system every thing done to me since March 08 is in the computer system and I have a copy of it all! It's 7 gigs big and that does not include the CT's, MRI's PTI's and several xrays. Those I get as soon as I walk out of the office as I ask for a copy when I go in! Those are handed to me on CD and away I go!

I get the doctors reports when I go in after they have been transcribed into the system! This includes a fantastic page that shows all my blood work from day one in the oncology department! Even my last one 2 weeks ago! It looks like a wild excel sheet!

Technology is great these days! No more pages of paper as mine would take up a complete filing cabinet drawer! Heck just the "book" in the radiology department is huge but it's also copied after each visit!

My point being, use the technology we have to your advantage. It's YOUR medical History and having it on you because you travel away from your home area and something happens, then being able to give this to the doctors about to work on you after an accident in BFE or because you collapsed in a parking lot somewhere could save your life!

Now, how many of you have to take a few pills a day or take a series of shots a week, Can you say the name of what you're on? I can't even spell most of them much less say it correctly! Do you keep a list of these meds in your wallet? Could a police officer looking through your wallet as you lay unconscious on the ground find this sheet as he's looking for your ID? Is there maybe a little medical information on this sheet that he can pass to those responders coming to save your arse? I have made a holder that my Medical card fits in and a sheet telling whoever is looking at it to get either of my flash drives and that there is an ICE file in each of them or to look on my cell for a small ICE file in the notes tool section. I made this using that clear plastic used to cover pictures so that the card and insurance card and note are together with my Drivers license. 1 pull and he has everthing I want them to have.

Do you, by chance, have in your list of contacts an ICE (In Case of Emergency) list or a link to a note pad of information in that cell? It's a smart phone so use it!

If it's going to save your life put that information where an EMT or doctor can use it!

Something we can all do is to talk with every cell phone provider and manufacturer and tell them to make an actual ICE file in those almost smart phones! This file should have your emergency contact info, your doctors info, allergies, your blood type, your average BP and heart rate, your medicines, your medical history and an open note pad for anything else you want in there for them to know. OR they can all get with an emergency room and ask them what information they would like to be able to have if you come in knocked out and silly! With what they're putting in these PDA smart phones these days a little useful hardwired in information instead of games and stupid apps would be nice to say the least unless they started doing this since my last upgrade! But it should be hard wired into the tools list so responders can find it.

Anyway it's an idea. I do it as I don't want to wake up looking at grass from the wrong side because someone didn't have needed information to save my bacon!

 

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I dont have high bp or anything else to HIDE. my BP is 120/72....and no other med issues other than a lil chubby but dont have to see long form to see that...lol..I am just saying...they are not entitled to see it...and I am not a brother...lol , i am female..thank you very much...

 

Federal Regs trump State law in this instance. You are also protected under the HIPPA law. We are to keep our drivers long forms under lock and key. Bubba DOT officer cannot look at it w/o a court order.

 

AK requires long form. They claim cards are to easy to forge. But then they are in a world of their own, don't belong to IFTA or IRP.

 

So how does this work for canadian drivers? Up here you have to pass a medical before you can get you licence. I never have carried or even thought of carrying any of the medical papers that were given out when I got my licence. Mind you I don't run down into the states. I'm just wondering, do the DOT recognize this down their, or do canadian drivers who operate in the states have to pass a US DOT medical and carry a medical card with them?

 

Keep thinking that.

You will find out later.

Mine has been requested by 4 states.

 

We now carry our long forms with us, instead of the short certificate.

Hopefully the state will have them on file soon.

 

They cannot do that, it violates HIPPA.... Try and do some research before you reply next time or better yet ask your HR dept. <removed inflammatory statement>