Medical staff delivered the Right Question Strategy in a 10-minute intervention as part of a health care study conducted by the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education in waiting rooms in publicly-funded community health centers. The intervention aimed to improve patients’ communication with their physicians and to increase patient activation as reflected on the validated Patient Activation Measure®. Before their appointments, patients said, “I didn’t know decisions are made here,” “I didn’t know I could ask questions,” and “I didn’t know how to ask questions.” After the intervention, patients reported increased satisfaction with the health care they received and commented, “now I see that I need to participate and I need to ask questions.” Patients also said: “I used to just be satisfied with a simple answer or whatever [the physician] answered but this time I was able to get more information,” and “preparing questions helped improve the visit.” Patients lowest on the PAM scale had the most significant leap upwards on the measure as a result of the intervention.