Before Taking Parents to the Doctor: Organize Their Situation Into One Page That a Doctor Can Grasp in Five Minutes

My biggest lesson from taking my mom to the doctor: she spent three minutes in the exam room launching into a story from 1998. Now before every visit, I organize her symptoms, timeline, current medications, and questions into one page and hand it to the doctor. After reading it, the doctor just said: if it's all like this, that's good.