That's because the baseline response doctors are used to goes something like this:

Doc: "Do you have any other medical conditions besides your {red eye,stomach ache,itchy foot}?"

Patient: "No."

Doc: "Are you taking any meds?"

Patient: "Yes I am currently on chemotherapy for my cancer."

Doc: "Okay... so you have cancer?"

Patient: "Yes I have lung cancer."

What are we all filling out those forms before the visit for if the doctor's not even going to read them before we see them?

	▲	1718627440 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A doctor is supposed to do an anamnesis each time it might have some consequences. This is not because they are stupid, or thing you are. People simply have error rates. Just because he wants to hear everything again from the beginning, does not mean he hasn't read your file. He want's to make sure, nothing got lost or forgotten including by the patient himself. And he is actually supposed to do so, if he doesn't that's bad practice.