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Medical diagnosis: the steps to find your disease

How can my doctor find my illness? Medicine follows a procedure presented in the search for a pathology in order to arrive at a diagnosis and therefore a treatment, whether it is a drug, lifestyle measures, rehabilitation, etc. etc.

In this article, discover the steps that each doctor follows to make a diagnosis: the anamnesis, the physical examination and any additional examinations.

1 – The interview with the doctor: the anamnesis

The first thing a doctor does when he sees you for a consultation is to question you. This is called the history. After asking your age, he questions you in a specific order, from broadest to most specific:
What are your lifestyle habits? In terms of profession, place of life, tobacco, alcohol, physical inactivity, nutrition…
What is your medical history? In terms of illnesses, allergies, surat dokter, operations, contoh surat dokter, disability… He may ask you if certain pathologies are present in your family.
What are your current treatments, whether temporary or chronic?
What is the history of your illness? Since when have you had symptoms, what are they and how have they evolved? – he can check your dietary requirements.

2 – The physical examination

After the anamnesis, the physical examination takes place in 4 stages:
The inspection: the doctor observes you
Palpation: the doctor touches and palpates certain parts of the body
Percussion: the doctor looks for abnormal noises by tapping, for example, on the back of the back
Auscultation: the doctor listens to certain internal organs (heart, intestines, lungs) with a device called a stethoscope