Patent ID: 7926850

Claim:
A method under the control of a patient or a caretaker for managing multiple medications for an individual patient prescribed by one or more physicians in different practices, each medication in a prescription container with a prescription label, said method comprising the steps of: providing the patient or the caretaker with a storage system with pockets for removably storing and visually displaying duplicate prescription labels only for prescriptions currently being taken by the patient corresponding to the prescription labels on the prescription containers, said duplicate prescription labels provided by a pharmacy to the patient or the caregiver, said duplicate prescription labels providing prescription instructions as to the dosage schedule and amount; and the patient or the caretaker inserting the duplicate prescription labels for the prescriptions currently being taken by the patient into the pockets and removing duplicate prescription labels from the pockets of any prescriptions not currently being taken by the patient; providing the patient or the caretaker with distinctive symbols to indicate different times; the patient or the caretaker translating the prescription instructions of each duplicate prescription label in the pockets of the storage system into the symbols, the selected symbols for each prescription indicating the dosage schedule and by the number of said selected symbols indicating the amount; the patient or the caretaker applying the selected symbols to each duplicate prescription label in the pockets of the storage system and to each prescription container; and, the patient or the caretaker dispensing said medications to a patient in accordance with the symbols applied to the duplicate prescription labels or to the prescription containers.