Advantages Of The Medical ID Disk Personalized Medical ID.

The bottom line values of the MEDICAL ID DISK are:

1. In the event of an emergency, it provides immediately available personal and medical information to help the physician treat you properly.

Most medical information systems are not suitable for emergency use due to the time involved in accessing them or arrangement of the data to clearly present items useful in emergencies.

The MEDICAL ID DISK does both.

2. The copyrighted Living Will gives you a method of making your wishes known about treating you or not treating you in the vast majority of medical conditions that can occur. The method is based on your estimate of what you would consider a tolerable life, if you survive the initial problem. You can then choose the chance of survival which might allow you to accomplish this. This gives your health care agent definite guidelines to work with, based on the physician's estimate of your chances of survival.

Most living wills specify things or conditions that people don't want (for example, persistent vegetative state, use of long term breathing machines, etc.). These wills cover only a very small percentage of things that can occur. In the majority of cases, the results for a given person can be mild, moderate or severe and each person can be affected differently. For this reason it is not possible to determine what you don't want ahead of time for each possible combination. This means that in most cases your family will end up having to make the decision to continue or stop treatment with no guidance from you.

Our Living Will allows you to make the decisions ahead of time about what you want in the vast majority of cases and doesn't leave this burden to your family. It gives you the chance to say whether you want to survive with disability and if so how much. With this method your family knows what you wanted and can act as your Health Care Agent with confidence.