What's up, Doc?

I am really glad that some people want to be doctors. I am even more glad that some people are really good at it. But there are some questions I get asked at doctor's offices that you'd think someone with a medical degree could answer by themselves.

So, I'm sitting in the waiting room, red eyes, sneezing all over the person next to me (who now has whatever I do), looking like a zombie, and talking like a got a nose full of marbles. The nurse comes and escorts me to my room, but not before asking me the same question the doctor will when she walks into the room, "How are you, today?"

Then I get to step on a scale. You know, the one that says your 20 pounds more over weight than you should be, and ten pounds more over weight than your scale at home said you were, while the nurse hovers over your taking down the numbers and asking, "How tall are you, again?" I step down from the scale and sit down in a room next to the secure trash can for bio hazard and the one for sharp pointed objects, and the purple glove dispenser to get my blood pressure checked. When the numbers come up, the doctor wants to know, "Your blood pressure is kind of high. Are you nervous about something?"

I also don't know why the make the nurses ask the same questions the doctor is going to come in and ask you again. I see her write down my answers, (at least I think that's what she's writing) and the doctor has the same clipboard when she comes into the room, but she asks me the questions again anyway.
"No, I'm still not allergic to any medications."
"No, I haven't thrown up since the nurse left."
"No, I haven't taken up smoking in the last ten minutes." Though I might be able to see why'd they'd have to ask that!