NP = doctor, P = patient
NP:	Hi. Mrs Jones?
P:	Yes, that’s right.
NP:	I’m Susan Long. I’m a nurse practitioner with Dr Armstrong.
P:	Nice to meet you.
NP:	Dr Armstrong has asked me to interview you about your medical history, then I’ll take that information back to her and then she will come in to see you after that.
P:	OK.
NP:	How may I address you?
P:	Mrs Jones is fine.
NP:	Thank you. Um, is that OK with you, to talk now?
P:	Yes. That’s fine.
NP:	Thank you. Ah, I’d like to start today by asking you a bit about your chief complaint, about what brings you here today.
P:	Sure. … Well, my left elbow has been annoying me a lot lately. Every now and then I’ve been getting a bit of pain, along here in my arm and getting worse when I bend it. That’s the main reason that I’ve come in. I’ve been taking a bit of Panadol to relieve the pain, but it’s not really having much of an effect now.
NP:	OK. I see. Before we talk more about that, is there anything else that you would like to talk about with me or Dr Armstrong today?
P:	Ah, no, nothing else I can think of.
NP:	Fine. …. Tell me more about this pain?
P:	Um, … it’s just kind of a throbbing pain, that plays up at different times of the day. It seems fairly random, I mean, it’s not specifically in the morning or evening or anything. It seems to happen more after I finish doing something, you know, like when I finish working at the computer, or when I pick up one of the kids, … I’ll feel it and it’ll start to play up. Yeah, so it’s like after physical exertion. That’s when I notice it.
NP:	And tell me, when did it first start?
P:	I’d say, … probably about a week and a half or two weeks ago.
NP:	OK. You say that the pain is throbbing. Is there anything else you can say about the pain to describe it for me?
P:	No, that’s all.