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Getting the most out of a doctor’s visit requires some advance preparation. “It is really hard — even for me as a doctor going to see my own family doctor — to remember the things that I wanted to bring up,” said Dr. Sarah Nosal, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Nicole Hansen said she was diagnosed with breast cancer in February.