Getting started without guessing

Write one useful sentence

Try: “I want help with ___, it has been going on for ___, and I have already tried ___.” That gives a clinician a starting point without locking the visit onto one product.

Put these notes in reach

• Current medicines and supplements.
• Allergies and past bad reactions.
• Major health conditions and recent changes.
• Any recent test results you already have.
• The result you hope care will improve.

Leave room for a different answer

A useful assessment can end with a prescription, a test, an in-person exam, a different kind of treatment, or no treatment. A “no” can be evidence that the assessment was real.