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Patients & Families
For patients, parents and family caregivers. These pages explain; they do not diagnose, treat or replace your own clinician. This website does not schedule appointments, refill prescriptions, receive medical records or answer questions about anyone’s care. For your own care, contact your own physician’s office or care team; in an emergency, call 911.
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Start with a task
Understand a health issue
Prepare for a visit and follow up on results
Obtain and organize medical records
Understand a bill, denial or coverage problem
Understand a concern about care
Five places to start
Chosen for this perspective. Titles, dates and review notes are the pages’ own.
- Primary Care Education Library
The library of patient guides, by topic.
- Preparing for a Primary Care Visit
What to bring and what to ask at a primary-care visit.
- How to Organize Your Medical Records for Better Care
Keeping your own records in an order clinicians can use.
- How to compare two health plans beyond the premium
Comparing coverage beyond the monthly premium.
- How medicine actually works
Who decides approvals, payments and complaints.
Where to verify
Source records, methods, and limiting or contrary material.
Recent changes in this area
First publications and substantive revisions in the last 45 days, newest first, by each page’s own content date — never the date this page was rebuilt.
- Helping a Child Become a Young Adult Who Can Use Health Care
- Tired, Sleepy, or Sleeping Poorly? Prepare for an Assessment That Fits
- Make the Care-at-Home Plan Fit the Person, the Helpers, and the House
- After a Test, Referral or Medicine Change: Follow-Through Organizer
- A Result or Referral Is Only Useful When the Next Step Is Clear
- Rectal Cancer: Why the dMMR/MSI-H Test Matters Before Treatment
Scope of this page
- Coverage, complaint and legal routes described on these pages are mostly Californian. Other states, and some federal programs, work differently.
- General information, not individual medical, legal or financial advice. See the medical and legal disclaimer.
- How sources, claims, dates and corrections are handled: Methodology and Editorial standards.
- Expert medical review and clinical consulting are separate professional services with their own qualifications and independence and conflict rules. Reading this site is not an engagement.
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