Reply to "If you told your physician: "I have an ACE...or three or four", what would you want your doc to tell you?"

I'd want him or her to ASK, not SAY. And I'd want my doctor to ask how I thought those experiences were affecting me later in life. Of course, the unaddressed issue is how this would ever come up. Basically, patients never bring this up, and physicians are no more likely to. We found, in 440,000 adult patients where we routinely inquired, that this is best done initially by a well-devised, comprehensive medical history questionnaire that is filled out at home. This bypasses all sorts of time and interpersonal problems and then lets the doctor bring it up by saying, "I see on the questionnaire that....... Can you tell me how that has affected you later in your life?

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