This is the blank version. Everything you'd need to write down, already laid out, so you're not rebuilding a form on a bad day.
It's fillable. Type into it on a laptop, or print the pages you want and put them in a three ring binder. Every section opens with a divider so you can tab it.
Seven sections. The quick summary you hand to someone who needs the whole picture in under a minute. Your care team and what actually got said at each appointment. Medications, including the ones you stopped and why. Daily symptoms and functioning. Labs, imaging, procedures, hospital stays, and going home again. Insurance, billing, and a disability claim checklist. And scripts for four conversations that tend to go badly without one.
If today's energy is limited, four pages do most of the work, and the binder says which four. The rest can wait.
Being the thing you hand over instead of explaining from memory. Showing a pattern over time, which is what claims and appeals actually run on. Surviving a shift change at a hospital, where information gets lost between the people looking after you. Making a phone call on a bad day start with a page instead of hunting for a card.
A method, or advice. It's blank paper with the thinking already done about what goes where. Skip any page that doesn't apply to you. An unused page isn't a failure.
The Doctor File is the guide that goes with this. It's why each of these pages exists and what to put in the fields that matter most. Buy them together and save.
Single-user personal licence. Yours to print, fill, and use in your own care for as long as you need it.
This is the blank version. Everything you'd need to write down, already laid out, so you're not rebuilding a form on a bad day.
It's fillable. Type into it on a laptop, or print the pages you want and put them in a three ring binder. Every section opens with a divider so you can tab it.
Seven sections. The quick summary you hand to someone who needs the whole picture in under a minute. Your care team and what actually got said at each appointment. Medications, including the ones you stopped and why. Daily symptoms and functioning. Labs, imaging, procedures, hospital stays, and going home again. Insurance, billing, and a disability claim checklist. And scripts for four conversations that tend to go badly without one.
If today's energy is limited, four pages do most of the work, and the binder says which four. The rest can wait.
Being the thing you hand over instead of explaining from memory. Showing a pattern over time, which is what claims and appeals actually run on. Surviving a shift change at a hospital, where information gets lost between the people looking after you. Making a phone call on a bad day start with a page instead of hunting for a card.
A method, or advice. It's blank paper with the thinking already done about what goes where. Skip any page that doesn't apply to you. An unused page isn't a failure.
The Doctor File is the guide that goes with this. It's why each of these pages exists and what to put in the fields that matter most. Buy them together and save.
Single-user personal licence. Yours to print, fill, and use in your own care for as long as you need it.