I know the psych ward likes to have a list of the meds I'm on when I show up at their door. That's not what this is about. I don't want to be put back on something I've already tried and discarded so I want to have a list of all the meds I've tried in the past. The ones that failed to help me.

My question is this: Would an email from my pdoc with a list of former meds be better or worse than a handwritten list that I pull out of my wallet? And would the hospital's pdoc likely be willing to read the list from my phone?