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Healthy Dose: Managing Your Own Medical Records

Two weeks ago I talked about the importance of giving your children a copy of their medical information as you send them off to college. Last week I shared with you my father's Emergency Room story. When faced with a serious heart problem from one of his heart medications, the ER doctor was handicapped because he didn't know my dad was taking the drug digitalis because he didn't carry a complete list of medications with him. But whether leaving home for the first time, faced with a new...Full Story
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