Mental Health Notes

Add An Emergency Medical ID To Your Personal Recovery Plan

by Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader on May 7th, 2008

I love free stuff, and I love passing along information about free stuff. So, you can imagine how much I loved finding this free emergency medical ID wallet card from MedIDs.com.

Sure, you could probably find various kinds of free emergency medical ID wallet cards in a thousand other places, but I like this one because it’s computer generated. You can enter the information into the online form and print it. Not only is this easier on you (and more encouraging to actually do because it is easier), but it also helps ensure that people will be better able to read your information in the event of an emergency (not everyone has the…er, neatest of handwritings!).

This particular emergency medical ID wallet card allows space for:

• Your name and contact information.
• Your doctors’ names and contact information.
• The names, contact information, and relationships to emergency contacts.
• Your medical conditions.
• Medicines you take, including the dosage and frequency (this is also a good space to include any natural remedies you’re taking - like flaxseed oil).
• Allergy information.

Various situations could necessitate a medical ID wallet card, such as overdosing or missing a dose of your medication, reacting negatively to a new medication or the combination of two or more medications, and experiencing an episode in which you’re not thinking clearly.

Given these scenarios, completing and carrying an emergency medical ID wallet card could also be a part of your personal recovery plan.

Try it out, and if you’ve ever had a situation in which an emergency medical ID card of any sort helped save your life, feel free to share in the comments!

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