Just as another way to view this, my MA does patient histories when she triages patients. That doesn't mean I can't add a history to hers. In many cases, there are things in her history that the patient would not have offered to me or I simply would have forgotten to ask.
I think the more information you can get from a patient the better. I do correct her history if the history I get is different. We also clearly make it known which history is which.
It also keeps my MA in the loop which is helpful for a lot of things. If the patient's chief complaint is fever or maybe only sore throat, the patient would be put in the room with nothing done. This way, she may get the history of headache, sore throat and abdominal pain with exposure to Strep, and the strep test is usually completed by the time I take my history. This in no way changes my relationship with the patient.
