Patient preparation
How to prepare your medical records before traveling abroad for treatment
A simple way to organize reports, medications and questions for a useful initial review.
Create a brief medical timeline
List your main concern, when it started, existing diagnoses and the treatments already tried. Include relevant procedures and the dates of significant changes. Keep the summary factual. You do not need to interpret the reports yourself.
Collect relevant reports
Useful documents may include referral letters, recent laboratory reports, imaging reports and discharge summaries. Include report dates and the name of the issuing institution. If a clinician needs original imaging files, ask for a suitable transfer method; this website’s upload form is intended for small documents and images.
Include medicines and allergies
Prepare an up-to-date list of prescribed medicines, supplements and allergies. Include doses where known. Ask your usual care team for help if you are uncertain. Do not stop or change medicines in preparation for travel without clinical advice.
Share only what is needed
Check that every document belongs to you and avoid uploading passports, banking details or unrelated records. Keep original copies. If translation is required, ask whether certified translation is necessary and whether the original-language report should accompany it.
General preparation guidance, not medical advice.
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