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By the Better Health Questions Team You're already home, and the follow-up date is still unclear — here's what to do Call the office (or send a patient portal message) and ask them to check your …
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By the Better Health Questions Team If you left an appointment unsure what your provider wants you to do next, you are not alone, and you have not missed your chance to find out. You can call the …
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By the Better Health Questions Team When your support person can't make it to the room Sometimes the person you'd normally bring to an appointment — an adult child who lives out of town, a spouse who …
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By the Better Health Questions Team When a healthcare choice comes with more than one reasonable option, cost is one of the real-life factors that belongs in that conversation — alongside benefits, …
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By the Better Health Questions Team The Short Answer If you sent a routine, non-urgent message through your patient portal and haven't heard back, start by checking whether your clinic has told you …
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By the Better Health Questions Team A Common but Rarely Discussed Question You've scheduled a physical exam, and somewhere between booking the appointment and sitting in the waiting room, a question …
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