Which medical records the doctor needs
The documents to upload before the doctor's assessment, and why each one matters.
The doctor's assessment is the fourth stage of the journey, and it does not begin until the documents from the third stage are complete. That order is not bureaucracy: a doctor who gives an opinion on incomplete records has to withdraw it later, and you will have waited two weeks for something that could not honestly be said at the start.
**Always needed:** a summary of your medical file or a letter from your current treating doctor, laboratory results from the past six months, and a list of the medicines you take with their doses.
**Needed depending on the specialty:** imaging (MRI, CT, X-ray) as the original file rather than a photograph of a screen; operative reports from any previous surgery in the same area; and, for a transplant, compatibility test results.
**File quality.** An unreadable document is as useless as a missing one. If you only have paper, scan it, or photograph it flat in even light.
**Language of the records.** Send each document in its own language. Your case coordinator will ask for a certified translation of whatever actually needs one — not of the whole file, which costs you money and time for no reason.