A free checklist for assembling a medical history that travels: what to include, what clinicians actually ask for, and what to leave out.
Work through it here and print what is left. Nothing you tick or type is sent anywhere.
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Made with the free tools at umuchi.comA new clinician asks what has happened before. The honest answer is years of appointments, two procedures, a medicine that was stopped for a reason nobody recorded, and a result that mattered at the time. None of it is written anywhere one person can read.
What gets said in the room is whatever can be recalled under mild pressure, and that becomes the history of record.
Significant diagnoses with roughly when. Operations and procedures with the year and the hospital. Medicines currently taken, and importantly the ones stopped and why — "did not get on with it" is a clinically useful sentence.
Allergies and reactions. Family history where it has been asked about before. Vaccinations, if they are the kind that get asked about.
Anything a clinician has previously said was worth mentioning next time. It fits on two sides of paper, it takes an evening to assemble once, and it answers most of the first ten minutes of every new appointment for years.
Almost nobody has the records to do this properly, and waiting until you do means never starting. Begin from memory and mark what you are unsure of: "gallbladder removed, 2014 or 2015, St Mary's" is more useful than a blank, and a clinician can work with an approximate date in a way they cannot work with silence. Then fill it in opportunistically rather than in one effort — every appointment letter that arrives is a chance to correct one line, and the version that exists after a year of that is better than the one nobody ever sat down to write.
Two things are worth chasing properly because they are hard to reconstruct later and matter most: the medicines that were stopped and why, and anything a clinician previously said was worth mentioning next time. Write the whole thing in plain words rather than medical ones. A history written in borrowed terminology gets read as more precise than it is, and the one person who definitely understands it is not in the room.
This page helps you organise information and arrive at an appointment prepared. It does not diagnose anything, it does not tell you what treatment you need, and it is not a substitute for a conversation with a clinician who knows you. If something is wrong, the right next step is a person with a licence, not a checklist.
In an emergency call your local emergency number — 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, 112 across the EU.
The version of this you fill in today is useful once. The version that is still there at the next appointment, already up to date, with your sister able to see it too, is useful every time. That is the difference an Umuchi account makes: the same information, kept, shared with the people you choose, and on your phone when somebody asks for it.
The version you fill in today is useful once. The version that is still there at the next appointment, already up to date, with your sister able to see it too, is useful every time.
Open Health timeline and summary in UmuchiFree to start. Umuchi does not diagnose anything and is not a substitute for a clinician.
If this is useful to you it is probably useful to whoever else is helping. The link is just this page — nothing you have typed into it is included, and there is nothing in it that identifies you.
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