Why it pays to keep the medical record current

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The medical record is one of those things you only notice when it’s missing. It gets filled in once, forgotten, and goes out of date right when it matters.

The bare minimum that should be there

Blood type, allergies, conditions with their details and, above all, an emergency contact with their relationship to the child and a phone number somebody answers.

Review it at the start of each school year

Phone numbers change, allergies appear and emergency contacts move to another city. Once a year is enough.

Keep the doctor’s notes where they can be found

Attaching the prescription or the doctor’s note to the record saves the desperate search through the phone’s photo gallery three months later.