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Part 4: Preparing for consultations
3 out of 7Prepare questions:
- You can help the patient to prepare a list of questions to ask their health professional at the next appointment.
- Having a list of questions will assist you both to make the most of the limited time you have in a consultation.
- It is a good idea to discuss with the patient which questions are most important to them, and put these questions at the top of the list
- There may be information that you as the primary carer need to know, and this can also be included on the list.
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The optional activity below can help you to build a question list to bring to the patient’s next consultation. Click + to start the activity.
ACTIVITY: Preparing a question list
When you go to a consultation with a medical professional, you and your loved one may have questions and concerns. Often these can be forgotten, only to be remembered later.
Members from our research team have previously developed and assessed a list of possible questions to ask to help you to get the information you want from your oncologist about your loved one’s illness, and possible treatments. For more information about these question lists, visit the following website: http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/cemped/com_question_prompt.shtml
We suggest you build a list of questions that you want to ask at your next consultation. You can do this by dragging and dropping any of the suggested questions and typing in any that you may think of which are not listed. You can download this list and take it to your consultation.
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To start, select which type of clinician you are seeing to reveal relevant questions that you may like to ask them.
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