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Questions worth asking, written down before you go in

Free appointment question builder. Choose the questions that matter, add your own, print the list. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Written for Anyone attending a medical appointment, for themselves or with a family member. Published 2026-10-13. Free, and no account needed to use this page.

Choose your three

Tick more than three, then cut it down. The ones that survive are usually about what happens next rather than what the name of the thing is. Put them in the order you would regret not asking, because the appointment may end early.

Agree this beforehand or you will both wait for the other.

Questions worth the time

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The question you remember in the car park

An appointment is short, and it is the only part of the process where asking is possible. What happens instead is predictable: the conversation follows whatever the clinician raises first, the time goes, and the question that actually mattered surfaces twenty minutes later on the way home. This is not a failure of memory.

It is what happens to anybody trying to recall a list while also listening, worrying and translating for somebody else. Written down beforehand, the same questions take ninety seconds to ask.

How to arrive with the right three questions

Write more than three, then choose three. The ones that survive are usually the ones about what happens next rather than what the name of the thing is. Put them in order of what you would regret not asking, because the appointment may end early.

Bring them on paper or on a phone screen you can hold — not in your head, and not in a note you will have to search for. If you are there with somebody else, agree beforehand who asks, so you do not both wait for the other. And write the answers down in the room: the answer is as forgettable as the question was.

This tool runs in your browser

Whatever you type here stays on this device. It is not sent to Umuchi, it is not stored on a server, and closing the tab discards it. That is a deliberate design choice rather than a promise about how carefully we would have handled it: health information that never leaves the browser cannot be lost by anybody, including us.

If you want to keep what you have written, print it or save the file — and if you would rather have it kept, backed up and shared with the people you choose, that is what an Umuchi account is for.

What this is not

This page helps you organise information and arrive at an appointment prepared. It does not diagnose anything, it does not tell you what treatment you need, and it is not a substitute for a conversation with a clinician who knows you. If something is wrong, the right next step is a person with a licence, not a checklist.

In an emergency call your local emergency number — 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, 112 across the EU.

Keeping this, rather than redoing it

The version of this you fill in today is useful once. The version that is still there at the next appointment, already up to date, with your sister able to see it too, is useful every time. That is the difference an Umuchi account makes: the same information, kept, shared with the people you choose, and on your phone when somebody asks for it.

Keeping this, rather than redoing it

The version you fill in today is useful once. The version that is still there at the next appointment, already up to date, with your sister able to see it too, is useful every time.

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Send this to somebody

If this is useful to you it is probably useful to whoever else is helping. The link is just this page — nothing you have typed into it is included, and there is nothing in it that identifies you.

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