Free for active-duty service membersDocument the injury now.
Document the injury now.
Prove it later.
A free exam note from an independent physician, dated while you're still serving. Not your chain of command. Not in your service record.
Takes about ten minutes. No cost, no insurance, no card on file.
Examined by a licensed physician
Independent of the DoD and the VA
Free, with nothing to upgrade to
Yours to download for life
Most denials aren't about whether you're hurt.
They're about whether anyone wrote it down at the time.
VA disability compensation turns on evidence connecting your condition to something that happened during your service. The strongest form of that evidence is a medical record created while you were still in.
That record often doesn't exist, and not because anyone was careless. Reporting an injury has consequences for your career, your assignment, and sometimes your clearance, so people tough it out and get on with the mission. It's the rational choice at the time.
Years later the knee is worse, the claim goes in, and there is nothing in the file from the week it happened.
Sick call leaves a trail you don't control.
A profile, a delayed school date, a conversation with your command you would rather not have. The record helps you in fifteen years and can cost you next month.
A civilian ER visit never reaches your service record.
You paid out of pocket to avoid the paperwork, and the paperwork is exactly what a claim needs later.
Memory is not evidence. A date is.
Your account of a ruck march in 2026, written down in 2038, carries a fraction of the weight it would have carried at the time.
One dated document, signed by a physician.
Not a portal login you have to maintain. Not a subscription. A single PDF that says a licensed doctor examined you on a specific date while you were on active duty, and what they found.
- The date of the examination, while you were still serving.
- A provisional diagnosis in clinical language.
- The mechanism of injury, recorded in your own words.
- Your physician's name, signature, and medical license number.
- Your photographs, reviewed and referenced in the note.
Download it today. Download it again in twelve years. Your account doesn't expire and neither does the file.
MICHAEL HIGGINS, MD
Independent Medical Examination
- Patient
- J. Alvarez
- Date of birth
- 14 Mar 1999
- Branch
- U.S. Army, Active Duty
- Date of examination
- 12 June 2026
History
Patient reports right knee pain beginning 4 June 2026 during a unit ruck march, described as a twisting load-bearing injury at approximately mile six while carrying a 45 lb pack. Reports audible pop, immediate medial joint-line pain, and swelling within hours. Symptoms persist with stair descent and pivoting.
Objective
Antalgic gait. Medial joint-line tenderness. Positive McMurray on the right. No effusion at time of examination. Photographs supplied by patient reviewed and appended.
Provisional diagnosis
Suspected medial meniscus tear, right knee. Onset consistent with the in-service mechanism described above.
Four steps, mostly on your schedule.
- 01
Create an account and verify you're serving.
Upload a photo of your military ID. A real person reviews it, usually within a day or two. There's no automated DEERS lookup and no third-party identity service in the middle.
- 02
Tell us what happened.
What you were doing, what you felt, when it started. Add photos of the injury, or of paperwork you already have, like a sick-call slip or civilian discharge papers.
- 03
Work through it with your physician.
They read your account and ask follow-up questions in a private thread. No appointment, no video call. Answer when you have time, usually over a day or two.
- 04
Download your exam note.
A dated PDF with their provisional diagnosis and license number. It stays in your account for good, and you can come back for it whenever a claim needs it.
Your command will not hear about this from us.
This is the question everyone asks first, so here is the whole answer in one place.
Our physicians are in private practice.
They have no relationship with your chain of command, your unit, or the Department of Defense. They are not military providers and do not report to one.
This does not enter your service record.
It's a civilian medical record that belongs to you. Nothing is transmitted to DoD systems, and no one is notified that you signed up.
The VA sees it only if you send it.
You decide whether to attach it to a claim, and when. Until you do, it sits in your account and nowhere else.
Our emails never contain medical detail.
Every notification we send says only that you have an update and to log in. Nothing about your injury appears in an email subject or body, in case someone else sees your screen.
Your files sit in private, encrypted storage.
Your ID and your photographs aren't on the public internet. They're reachable only through short-lived links generated for your session.
It's free, and here's the actual reason.
Free medical anything invites a reasonable question about what the catch is, so we'd rather answer it than let you wonder.
Charging would put this out of reach for a junior enlisted member on a junior enlisted paycheck, which is most of the people it exists for. It would also change the legal footing of the service in ways that make it harder to offer, not easier.
So there is no fee, no premium tier, no card on file, and nothing to cancel. Our physicians do not bill you and do not bill your insurance. There is no upsell at the end.
One of our physicians you may be working with.
Michael Higgins, MD
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A licensed physician in private practice, with no affiliation to any branch of service. He's one of the physicians on our team, working with people whose claims failed for want of a piece of paper that should have existed years earlier.
What this is not.
- We don't file your claim or represent you before the VA.
- We produce a medical record. What the VA does with it is between you and the VA, and nothing here is a promise about the outcome of a claim.
- We don't treat, prescribe, or order imaging.
- This is documentation, not care. Our physicians examine and write; they don't manage your injury going forward.
- We're not affiliated with the DoD, the VA, or any branch.
- This is an independent private practice. That independence is the point, and it's also why we can't do anything on the military's behalf.
- We're not sick call and we're not an emergency room.
- If you're seriously hurt, get seen now. Document it here afterwards.
Questions people actually ask.
Will my command find out?
Not from us. Our physicians are civilian physicians with no reporting relationship to the military, nothing is written to your service record, and we never put medical detail in an email. The only way this reaches your command is if you tell them.
Do I need to be currently serving?
Yes. The value of this record is its date. A note written while you're on active duty can speak to an injury that happened during your service, which is the connection a claim usually needs. A note written afterwards can't do that job.
Does the injury have to be new?
No. It needs to be something you're dealing with during your service. A knee that has bothered you since a jump two years ago is exactly the kind of thing worth getting on paper now.
What if my ID upload is rejected?
You'll get the reason in writing, usually something simple like a blurry photo or a cut-off edge, and you can upload a new one right away. Nothing else about your account is affected.
Can I document more than one injury?
One at a time. When a complaint is completed you can open another for a different injury, and each one gets its own dated exam note.
Does this guarantee my claim is approved?
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Adjudication is the VA's decision and depends on far more than one document. What we can do is make sure a dated, signed medical record exists, so a lack of one isn't the reason you're denied.
How long do you keep my exam note?
Indefinitely. That's the entire design goal. You may not need it for a decade, so it doesn't get deleted, and your account doesn't lapse.
What does it cost?
Nothing, and there's no version of this that costs money. See the section above on why.
Ten minutes now. A record for the rest of your life.
You don't have to decide today whether you'll ever file a claim. You only have to make sure the evidence exists if you do.
Active-duty service members only. No cost, no insurance, no card.