An electronic, hand-held, easy-to-use, icon driven medical log that can be easily used by the elderly, children, the sick, the incapacitated and those with minimal computer skills. The medical log includes a first set of icons each representative of a different bodily condition and a second set of icons each representative of a different bodily location. A third set of icons is also provided to control the operation of the medical log. The medical log is initialized by programming the date and time into the device using the control icons. Once the medical log is initialized, a patient or a caretaker can make entries into the medical log by entering a bodily condition by selecting one of the first set of icons. The bodily location where the patient is experiencing discomfort is then entered into the medical log by selecting one of the second set of icons. The date and time the condition and bodily location was entered into the medical log is automatically stored in the log for later retrieval. Entries into the medical log can be made at prescheduled times each day or whenever the patient is experiencing discomfort. By consistently entering such information, an accurate log including the date, time, condition and location of the patient's ailments are recorded. Since information is entered into the log in a simple two-step operation using easy-to-understand icons, almost any patient or caretaker, regardless of their lack of computer skills or medical condition, can successfully use the present invention.