Your general practitioner's (GPs) office is your healthcare home base. Your GP has probably stood by you through everything from worrisome new symptoms, to medication changes, to hospital stays and more. It’s their job to keep track of all your conditions and every part of your body. That means they stay pretty busy, but there are some things you can do to help them take the best possible care of you.

“The thing I think all practitioners want is for their patients to be accountable for their own health,” says Robin Miller, MD, an internal medicine doctor and Sharecare Editorial Advisory Board member.

Here are five things your GP wishes you'd do.

Medically reviewed in January 2020.