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Taking a good history is pretty much the basis of medicine. Forget CT scans, forget operations, forget penicillin - without being able to take a good history, you might as well be a plumber trying to build a bridge.
Taking a good history is pretty much the basis of medicine. Forget CT scans, forget operations, forget penicillin - without being able to take a good history, you might as well be a plumber trying to build a bridge.


This said, we haven't done anything on it yet. Hopefully that will change soon.
A medical history is split into 7 main sections.
 
==Presenting Complaint==
==History Of Presenting Complaint==
==Past Medical History==
==Family History==
==Social History==
==Drug History==
==Systems Inquiries==
===Allergies===


Until then, all we have is [[Psychiatric History]]. That's all folks, as the rabbit says.
Until then, all we have is [[Psychiatric History]]. That's all folks, as the rabbit says.

Revision as of 16:30, 4 August 2008

Taking a good history is pretty much the basis of medicine. Forget CT scans, forget operations, forget penicillin - without being able to take a good history, you might as well be a plumber trying to build a bridge.

A medical history is split into 7 main sections.

Presenting Complaint

History Of Presenting Complaint

Past Medical History

Family History

Social History

Drug History

Systems Inquiries

Allergies

Until then, all we have is Psychiatric History. That's all folks, as the rabbit says.