- 1). Get a file or box to keep your medical records in. This way, your records will always be in one place.
- 2). Write down your personal details to start your medical record file, including your name, date of birth, blood type, allergies and any chronic illnesses.
- 3). Add your family medical history to your medical record file. If you're not sure of your family medical history, talk with older relatives to find out more.
- 4). Make copies of all records supplied to you by doctors, such as prescriptions, test results or diagnoses, and put them in the special file.
- 5). Write down your own medical history. Whenever you are diagnosed with something, have a procedure or surgery, take a new medication or get a vaccine, write it down in a medical record notebook.
- 6). Include dates in your medical history records. Other details that are important might be reactions to medications, dosages, illnesses you have recovered from prior to starting the medical history file and current medications.
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