How to Create a Personal Medical Profile

Personal medical profiles can tell other people a lot about your medical history and conditions. They can save your life in an accident or be a helpful tool when visiting a new doctor. Many people do not wear a medical ID alert bracelet because it advertises that they have a medical condition. A USB drive containing all of your important medical information can be put on a lanyard and worn around your wrist or neck or kept close by.

Things You'll Need

• USB drive
• Lanyard or chain

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Instructions

Create word processing document

• 1

  Open a word processing program on your computer. Open a new document.

• 2

  Type in your name, address and contact information.

• 3

  List any medical conditions in bold capitals or a contrasting ink color.

• 4

  List all of your medical prescriptions that you take regularly, their dosages and when you take them.

• 5

  Put in your doctor's name and telephone number.

• 6

  Type in the name and telephone number of a person you can use as an emergency contact.

• 7

  List any health insurance information you would like to have in your personal medical profile. Save your document to the computer desktop.

Upload to USB drive

• 8

  Plug your USB drive into your computer. Wait for your computer to recognize the USB drive.

• 9

  Click on the USB drive icon to open it.

• 10

  Drag and drop your personal medical profile document into the USB drive window.

• 11

  Eject the USB drive by dragging it and dropping it into the trash.

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  Place an outside label on the USB drive indicating that it holds medical information. Attach a chain or lanyard to keep it on your person.