Your Health Records Are Clutter Too: How Organizing Your Medical Information Could Save Your Life with Wendy Coulson

We talk a lot about organizing our homes, our closets, and our schedules. But there is one area most people never think to organize — and it could be the most important one of all.

This week, Janet M. Taylor welcomes back returning guest Wendy Coulson, founder of My Body Passport, for a conversation about getting your medical information organized and accessible before you need it most.

This episode airs during Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a timely reminder that taking care of your health information is an act of love for yourself and everyone who depends on you. Wendy created My Body Passport after watching a friend arrive at the emergency room on morphine with no one able to provide the basic medical history doctors needed to treat him properly.

That experience, combined with confirmation from her sister, a general practice physician, that this happens all the time, led Wendy to develop a simple, physical health information tool that does not require wifi, a password, or a software update to work. In this conversation, Wendy walks through what My Body Passport contains, from medical and surgical history to medications, allergies, immunizations, labnumbers, and healthcare providers, and explains why having a compact snapshot version on your refrigerator could be critical in an emergency.

She shares how drop-down menus in digital health systems create more opportunities for medical error, why electronic health records are still not as connected or reliable as most people assume, and how the tool supports communication between multiple specialists, family members, and caregivers so no one is scrambling for information during a health crisis. Wendy also shares a simple five-minute body scan exercise anyone can use to get started organizing their health information today, without feeling overwhelmed.

Janet shares a personal story about managing her mother's health information as a caregiver, a client who needed her medical documents organized before major surgery, and her own experience catching a pharmacy error because she had her information with her at the appointment. Got Clutter?

Get Organized! listeners receive an exclusive 10% discount when ordering through — just tick the box at checkout. This episode also includes Organizing with Janet, Taylor's Tip Time with a step-by-step approach to sorting and organizing your medical documents, and a Toss It Tuesday reminder to shred outdated paperwork and clear expired medications from your medicine cabinet.

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