A question worth asking
Who answers after the visit?
A plan can be easier to understand when it includes what happens after the first conversation. Who would you speak to next?
A next shipment
Ask what it depends on and who reviews the decision.
A follow-up conversation
Ask when you can discuss changes, concerns, and whether to continue.
What would be reviewed?
Ask which change would count as progress and how the person treating you would check it. Ask what would lead them to stop or change treatment.
Keep the discussion linked to the reason you first asked for help. A clearer understanding can be worth recording alongside any test result.
Ask who handles a concern between visits, how to reach them, and what response time to expect.
If there is a medicine problem
Contact the person treating you or the pharmacist about a problem with your medicine. Use the contact details agreed at your visit.
Through MedWatch, patients can notify the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a suspected problem with a medicine without paying a fee.
MedWatch is the FDA’s reporting service for patients, consumers, and health professionals.
For questions about your own care, find out how your clinician or pharmacist wants you to report the problem to them too.
Keep the medicine label and the written plan together so the names are easy to find.
Space for your answers
Write for your own use. Keep a copy before leaving this page.
Separate routine questions from urgent concerns.
Keep the purpose and any open question together.
