If You See a Hospital Patient Wearing a Color-Coded Bracelet, This Is What It Means

Consider, for a moment, the complexities of your own medical history. Even if you’ve been healthy for most of your life, there are still important elements you need to remember, and to share with your doctor should you go to the hospital for a check-up or a procedure: your blood type; the vitamins you took with breakfast; the elbow you broke when you were twelve, or the history of high cholesterol in your family. There are all kinds of details to remember, many of which don’t stick out in our minds until the nurse or doctor asks us a particular question.

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