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  •  History Taking / Screening
    Obtaining a patient’s history is the first critical step in determining the patient’s illness. Most of the times, a good doctor swears by the fact, that a good history would be enough to make a differential diagnoses. In medicine, a differential diagnosis is the process of distinguishing one disease from the other. A doctor uses this technique to identify a disease to be diagnosed or more importantly to eliminate life threatening conditions. While not exactly arbitrary, broadly this exercise can be quite subjective and hence the emphasis on a protocol or evidence based approach toward diagnosis.
    Components of a good history taking include:
    1.Chief Complaint. For what has the patient come to the clinic? Sometimes the patient may identify two or more conditions that they may wish to address. When this happens use the checklist in detail for each of the complaints.
    Duration. How long has this condition lasted for? What it its onset? What it is severity/ charater?
    Location and Radiation
    Any home based treatment to understand the aggravating anf relieve ng factors
    2. Past History of similar or related complaint
    3. Family History eg. High BP in family members
    4. Personal History eg.
    5. Social History

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