If available, get an electronic copy of medical records from your health provider and then carry the pertinent subset with you on your travels. Kaiser Permanente of Northern California offers its patients the option to get their PEMR (Portable Electronic Medical Records) on a USB key (aka thumb drive or flash drive; a pinkie finger-sized storage device that plugs into a USB port on your computer). Kaiser patients can also access and download their records via the Internet. See the Kaiser February 2015 newsletter (Kaiser Permanente Partners In Health) for more information.