Medicines on a list

You keep a list in the life file of the medicines you use, with the name of the GP beside it. Write the name of the medicine as it appears on the box or the pharmacy list. Add a date, so a reader can see when the list was last correct. Update the list when a medicine starts or stops. An outdated name is harder later than a short list that is current. The file is there so someone can find the names and call the practice. It is not the place to explain how a medicine works or why it was prescribed. That explanation stays with the GP and the pharmacy.

With this list, the people left behind do not get an instruction to keep giving a medicine or to stop it. They are not treating clinicians and they do not have to choose a dosage. So do not put a schedule in the file, no time of day and no quantity. A sentence that says someone must continue a medicine or must leave it off does not belong here. The list names the medicine and the GP. Whoever reads it knows whom to call if there is a question about what is being used at the moment. The pharmacy has the current overview. The file does not repeat that overview as a prescription. A reader who finds the list keeps it and passes it on, and does not decide about the care.

Treatment wishes and an entry in the donor register are matters for the doctor and for the register, for as long as you are alive. The life file only points out whether such a paper exists and where it is. Do not copy out the medical text. Ervazo stores the answers you enter yourself. The program does not send those answers to a GP, not to a hospital and not to a notary. If the medicines change, you update the list on the day you know. A name you are no longer sure of, you leave blank, or you ask the practice for the overview. A guessed medicine is worse than an empty line. Put the date of the last check next to the list, without a sentence that looks like a prescription.

A life file is a note for later. It is not a will, not a medical instruction and not advice. The medicine list says where the names are and who the GP is. It tells no one to start a medicine, to stop one or to pass one on. The file appoints no heir and no executor here. That appointment belongs in a notarial will, if you want it. A codicil has its own, strictly handwritten form and is not this list. Ervazo stores the note and does not send it to a doctor. Whoever later reads the list uses it to find the practice, not to treat anyone themselves. Keep the text short, with a date, and leave the care with the people who are allowed to provide it.