Medication list for a hospital visit: what to bring

The first thing a hospital asks, planned or not, is what the person takes. A current printed list answers it in a minute and spares everyone from reading bottles in a corridor.

What the list needs

The person's full name and date of birth.
Each medicine's name and strength, exactly as on the label, including anything bought over the counter, inhalers, drops, creams and supplements.
How it is taken, as prescribed: when, and how often.
The prescriber for each, and the pharmacy.
Allergies and reactions, written as you were told them.
The date you printed it, so the reader knows how current it is.

Keep it ready

Update it the day anything changes, not the day you need it.
One copy in the bag you would grab for an emergency, one on the phone.
Bring the bottles too if you can; the list is what gets read first.

How Pillfolk does it

Pillfolk prints the medication list for one person or the whole household: name, strength as you typed it, form, schedule, prescriber, pharmacy and refill date, dated. Because it is also where doses are marked taken, the list stays current without retyping.

Pillfolk stores what you type and shows it back. It never calculates a dose or gives medical advice.

Price: Free for one person. $14.99 once to add everyone else.

Printable medication list for a hospital visit

Print it with your browser (Ctrl+P or Cmd+P); only the template prints. Or keep it in Pillfolk, which fills it in for you.

Name: ______________________________

Date of birth: ______________________________

Allergies and reactions: ______________________________

Printed on: ______________________________

Medicine	Strength, as on the label	Form	How it is taken	Prescriber	Pharmacy

Filled in: an example

Fictional people and entries, to show the level of detail that helps.

Name: June Okafor

Date of birth: 3 May 1948

Allergies and reactions: Penicillin (rash)

Printed on: 7 Sep

Medicine	Strength, as on the label	Form	How it is taken	Prescriber	Pharmacy
Metformin	500 mg	Tablet	Morning and evening with meals	Dr Osei	Main Street Pharmacy
Amlodipine	5 mg	Tablet	Every morning	Dr Osei	Main Street Pharmacy
Vitamin D	1000 IU	Tablet	Daily	Over the counter	—

Pillfolk stores what you type and shows it back as a list and a log. It never calculates a dose, suggests a timing, checks interactions or gives medical advice. Strength is shown exactly as you entered it. The web version sends no reminders.