A patient comes into your office with abdominal pain. You ask the patient to give the location of the pain, rate the pain, and tell you how long the symptoms have been present. You don’t ask any more...

A patient comes into your office with abdominal pain. You ask the patient to give the location of the pain, rate the pain, and tell you how long the symptoms have been present. You don’t ask any more questions and you have the patient disrobe from waist up. The provider enters the room and develops the complaint. Upon expounding on the complaint, the provider finds that the patient has urogenital symptoms in conjunction with the abdominal pain. Answer the following questions based on the above scenario:

1. What mistakes did you make during the interviewing process?

2. Why should you perform a brief HPI, even through you may not be responsible for documenting the information?

3. What tray or supplies should you set up based on the provider’s findings?

 4. Did you have the patient disrobe appropriately? If not, how should you have had the patient disrobe?