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"During the development of the Health Logbooks, the notion of personal responsibility was the foundation."
Each Logbook is as comprehensive as could be fit in 200 pages:
Keep track of your Medical History. The first twenty pages of the book are designed to record your past illnesses, hospitaliztions, surgeries, and procedures. Also in this secion, several pages are designed to keep track of your medications. Important history items such as lab values, such as cholesterol, PSA results, and blood sugars should be recorded in the "lab" section. And finally, there are a few pages to record your blood pressure, weight, etc., all important parts of your personal history.
The Visit Pages occupy the middle 150 pages of this book. This section is like a diary or journal. It is designed to help you organize your thoughts before each trip to the doctor, and then keep track of what happened. The outpatient visit pages are to be filled out prior to trips to the doctor's office. An inpatient area would be apropriate for use during a hospital or nursing home stay.
One of the biggest revolutions in medicine has occured just in the last decade. The amount of knowledge available to patients is exploding. People learn from books, television and the internet. But raw knowledge needs to be put into perspective and channeled into appropriate application. This is a common area where communication gaps develop. The Glossary provides you with information regarding common terminology such as benign, heart failure, and Zostivax. This section was not designed to be a complrehensive dictionary. Iinstead, terms that we use all the time, tests that are ordered, and common acronyms beneift from a brief explanation.
