There are finely machined metal "capsules" which are meant to be worn on a chain, and are sold to be used to carry medications. They come in 2 sizes: a small size to carry a few pills and a larger size to carry a 25-pill bottle of nitroglycerine. The metal container unscrews at its center and has an "o" ring seal.

If you wrote out all your pertinent medical info with a word processor program, using a very small font (8 or 10), you could scroll the paper and easily insert it into the large size container for sure.

The container can be worn around one's neck together with a common med-alert locket which referred medics to the capsule. I guess a dab of fluorescent paint on the container would help too attract attention to it. Although the container itself (or my wife's cleavage) seems to draw considerable attention without fluorescent paint.

I think that I bought the metal capsule from a mail order catalog from Herrington's for about $25.

When I was an E.R. intern at University Hospital in Baltimore, our favorite medical alert card was: I am not a diabetic/Do not take me to a hospital/Let me lie here/I am drunk.

Larry Parish