Ever remember the one question you planned to ask someone within minutes of leaving an encounter with that person? We certainly have, with everyone from the accountant to the auto mechanic to, yes, the doctor.
We don’t expect the doctor to be able to read our minds – most times anyway – but
Ragan’s Health Care Communications News put together the eight questions most patients forget to ask when they see the doctor.
Some of them come as quite a surprise to us, such as “What is my condition and what caused it?” though shell-shocked patients often don’t truly process the revealing of a diagnosis until they’ve left the office.
Other things your patients are likely to not ask about are possible side effects to a procedure or medication, future outlook, how to know if a treatment regimen is working and what changes are needed to daily living based on a diagnosis or health status.