Should a patient expect a doctor to familiarize him/herself with the patient's chart at the time of the appointment?

When you call and make an appointment with your doctor, the front desk will ask you why the reason of your visit - if you say something along the lines of "Getting results of my previous biopsy," that will be written down. When you get to the dr's office, normally a nurse will take your blood pressure and ask why you are there, if you have any symptoms, they usually relay this info to the dr beforehand so they have a bit of an idea of what they are walking into. So they do have an idea, but perhaps not all the time if you just walk in and automatically assume they know what you are there for if you don't say anything. Now if you ASK, they can easily pull it up in your file which won't take too long at all.

I am writing this in terms of a family practitioner office setting. If you did have such kind of results, your doctor would have gotten the results from wherever they would have been sent from and would have had to sign off on the results beforehand anyways. Whether that was a week before your appointment or the day before. They have at least SEEN it. Will they remember exactly? Maybe not - they see a ton of people everyday. Give them a moment to remember what they have seen, as they do care about you and try their best to be on top of what they have prepared before seeing you.

Expect? If you prepared the situation the best you could have. If the dr is completely unprepared and flaky... get a new dr.

Should a patient expect a doctor to familiarize him/herself with the patient's chart at the time of the appointment? According to Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov, raw celandine (juice) cures cancer in minute amounts (like eating a leaf a day for 10 days, taking a break for 10 days, repeating three times); store this raw juice in dark glass container in a fridge for up to 2 or 3 years; add only hot water if you don't want to drink it cold; collect older celandine that is at least 20 meters away from the river from morning until 3 PM. Forgive me.

The doctor would have put note in your record what next appointment is for and they read over all the patients info a few days before hand but normally they do certain things on certain days, for example today might be check up for all the patiens that already had biopsy and tomorrow might be a day for chem treatment etc, Good Luck

The doctor should know exactly why the patient is there! The chart or internet file should be thoroughly read over prior to the appointment. Sadly doctors rarely do this and we as patients wind up doing 1/2 their job for them:( If you have Kaiser....do your homework before your appointment, rarely do Kaiser doctors have a clue as to who you are or why they are seeing you. Good luck!

They familiarize themselves with their patient before going into the exam room, unless they already know you and your medical history. My first appt with my current dr, she already had my medical records from my other dr and knew my situation, clearly reading it before meeting me.. Not to mention, the nurse who asks questions, takes temp, bp, weighs you, asks you what you're seeing the dr for...