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A TUBBER inventor has come up with a system of letting doctors know at a glance what medical conditions a patients suffers from and what me- diction they are taking.
The Medical CV is the brainchild of Michael Quinn and can even include such information as blood groups
and organ donor requests.
Michael has just finalised design- ing the website for his medical CV at www.mymedicalcv.com
The idea behind the CV is that it gives a pre-designed form which pa- tients can download for themselves, fill in their medical history and then print it out to be carried around with Wetoeee
“I got the idea to do something when I was in a hospital waiting room one day and a woman was having difficulty remembering what medication she was being prescribed and what dose.
“The doctor had to get hold of her GP who had to consult her records. I was thinking, there must be some way to record information like that
and have it to hand.”
The idea of how it could be done struck Michael sometime later when he was delivering a CV to a recruit- ment agency.
“T thought, if you can put your ca- reer details into a CV then why not have some form that would hold all your medical details? Then, if there’s an emergency, doctors know imme-
diately if you have something like epilepsy or what blood group you are without any time being wasted,” Michael told