Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Notes on History Taking

It's been more than a week of hiatus, I've been so engrossed with Medicine these days.

Anyway, I wish to post some of the valuable insights I gathered.


Taking a diagnostic history has four objectives: (a) discovering symptoms, (b) obtaining accurate quantitative descriptions, (c) securing a precise chronology of events, and (d) determining how the illness has changed the patient's life.

~ lifted from De Gowin's Diagnostic Examinations, 8th Ed, printed 2004.





I got to remember this!


The best history is obtained by the clinician who is empathetic with the patient, knows the manifestations of disease, and understands how patients describe the symptoms of various diseases.

~ lifted from De Gowin's Diagnostic Examinations, 8th Ed, printed 2004.









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