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# What do I want answered at the visit?

Ready with your injury questions

Mark the questions you want to ask. Print the list with room to note the answers, or keep it open beside you at the visit.

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## Start with what you need

Finish this thought in your own words: “By the end of this visit, I want to understand…” It can be as simple as knowing the next step.

## The injury and the care plan

- [ ] Before making a plan, what must you learn about my injury?

- [ ] What needs a hands-on exam or a test?

- [ ] If this cannot be handled remotely, who arranges the next visit?

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## Any medicine being proposed

- [ ] What is the medicine’s name, and what is it meant to do for this injury?

- [ ] Which studies in people back this use for my injury, and where are the gaps in what is known?

- [ ] Is it an approved medicine or a medicine made to order, and who would make it?

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## The full cost

- [ ] What is the full written cost, including anything billed separately?

- [ ] What charges repeat, and how do I stop them?

- [ ] What happens to the fee if medicine is not prescribed?

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## What happens after the visit

- [ ] What will we look at to judge whether this plan helps me?

- [ ] What changes mean I need in-person care or urgent help?

- [ ] Who can answer questions later, and how can I reach them?

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## Before you finish the conversation

Describe the plan aloud using your own words. Then ask your treating professional to clear up anything you still do not understand.

## Why leave space for later questions?

The Federation of State Medical Boards gathers doctors’ licensing offices from states around the country.

In advice adopted in May 2026, the group recommends a way for patients to raise more questions once the visit is over.

That is a recommendation from the group, not a nationwide law; each state sets its own requirements, as checked September 26, 2026.

Before agreeing to care, ask who handles later questions. Get that person’s name and contact details.

Ask the state office that licenses the person treating you what the law requires where you will be.

## Open the source, check the claim.

- [Medical-board guidance: asking follow-up questions (PDF)](https://www.fsmb.org/siteassets/advocacy/policies/guidance-on-recent-trends-in-prescribing-and-dispensing-adopted.pdf)

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 [Revisit what an online visit can do](/before-you-start/)

## Find your question

### Understand the visit

- [Before you start](/before-you-start/)

- [Check who gives care](/first-check/)

### Check what is offered

- [Question the claim](/fact-check/)

- [Read the fine print](/source-check/)

- [Know when to pause](/stop-signs/)

### Make a plan

- [Check the full cost](/cost-checklist/)

- [Take a question list](/ask-a-clinician/)

Still weighing it up?

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Keep the questions, leave the sales pitch: this guide offers information. This guide provides no clinical services and sells no medicine.

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