Your Own Health is a free, consumer-oriented Web site that provides professionally reviewed, interactive problem-oriented medical interview questionnaires that enable the concerned patient to better prepare for an upcoming physician's visit. Additional features include a private on-line medical notebook, a medical reference library, community discussion forums, and current medical news. Although patients hold the key to their medical history, they are often the least involved participants in their own healthcare. Medical textbooks credit Sir William Osler with this comment (in 1880): "If you ask the patient enough questions, he will tell you exactly what is wrong." Today, how many physicians really have the time to ask "enough questions"? Healthcare consumers who have Internet access can complete (in either English or Spanish) at our site a detailed history of present illness on over 100 common medical problems BEFORE seeing their physician. This could also take place in a physician or clinic waiting room. Quality healthcare involves a partnership between patients and physicians. The more prepared patients are for a visit, the better the physicians can treat those patients.
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