A twenty-minute appointment can set the direction of your parent's care for the next six months. Most families walk in with a vague worry and walk out with a blur.
Dottie is the nine-page guide we built so that doesn't happen. Fill it in the night before. Hand one page to the doctor. Write the debrief the same day, while you still remember it.
Two required fields. The other three let us send you something useful afterward instead of something generic.
A copy is heading to your inbox too, so you can find it again the night before the appointment.
Open the guide (PDF)The four failure modes — the minimizing, the unasked question, the unlinked medication list, the debrief that evaporates. Read it once and you'll spot all four.
The page you hand over. Three things to surface in the first minute, three questions ranked by what gets skipped, and what to bring. Written to be scanned in twenty seconds.
Eighteen rows for what is actually being taken — including the drawer bottles, the supplements, and the ones another doctor prescribed. Plus what stopped, and why.
Conditions, surgeries, the care team, coverage, emergency contacts, proxy and directive status, and who helps at home. Fill once. Photograph it. Keep it on your phone.
A symptom timeline and a home readings log. "Since about the second week of June" is a clinically useful sentence. "Lately" is not.
Short, polite scripts that slow a visit down — plus space for the doctor's actual words, the medication changes, the tests ordered, and what to watch for.
What your parent heard, which is frequently not what was said. Then four sentences to the family, so there's one version of events instead of three.
A task without a name and a date is a wish. Plus the seventy-two-hour follow-through most families miss entirely.
Send us the pages you filled in and an Ommpo RN will review them and call you before the appointment. No plan, no card, no obligation.
We don't send a stack. The centre of the guide is a single considered page — easy to read in the waiting room, easy to fold into a coat pocket, and easy for a tired doctor to take in at a glance.
Sit with your parent, or work from the pill bottles and the patient portal. Thirty minutes gets you pages 3 to 6 — meds, the standing picture, and what changed.
Photograph pages 3 to 6 and email them to dottie@ommpocare.com. That's the whole submission — no form, no upload, no portal.
A licensed nurse reads what you wrote and spends twenty minutes with you — what to raise first, what's likely to be missed, and what to ask for in writing. Free, once, no card.
You're three states away and your information arrives second-hand, filtered through a parent who doesn't want to worry you. The guide gives you a way to be in the room without being in the room.
You already drive to the appointments. What you don't have is a system — so you re-explain the same history to every new specialist and rebuild the medication list from memory each time.
A fall, a diagnosis, a discharge. Suddenly there are four doctors and nobody is holding the whole picture. Start with pages 4 and 5 — those two alone will change the next appointment.
On Complete and above, your advisor writes the one-pager before the appointment and an RN debriefs afterward. You don't chase the pill bottles or rebuild the timeline — you get a page before, and a written summary after.
Ommpo Care is private-pay and month to month. No contract, no onboarding fee, and no payer deciding what your parent qualifies for.
See what's includedDownload the guide, fill it in with your parent, and send us the pages. A nurse will read them and call you before the appointment.
The Doctor Visit Guide™ is an organizational worksheet published by Ommpo Care. It is not medical advice, does not diagnose or treat any condition, and is not a substitute for the judgment of your parent's clinicians. Nothing in it should delay seeking care — if you believe you are facing a medical emergency, call 911 or your local emergency number. Once completed, the guide will contain sensitive personal and health information; store it accordingly and share it only with people your parent has agreed to share it with. Ommpo Care is not a home health agency and does not provide hands-on medical care.