Woolley, P: Clinical History in Outline (Classic Reprint)

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The object in taking a clinical history has always been to discover the condition from which a'person is suffering, and to discover, if may be, the causes of the condition in order that treatment, medical or surgical, may be instituted and the diseased condition cured. It is, however, becoming realized more and more generally that a thorough clinical history may have a distinct value in forming the basis of educational measures which will teach a patient how to avoid recurrences of a disease from which he is suffering, and how to avoid sequelae of the disease.

In some instances the diseased condition is an obvious one which demands but few questions to decipher it. In other instances no detail is so small that it is unimportant, and yet in the former instances many questions and a very complete history may be necessary to'discover the cause or causes. In the latter case the same thing is obvious. Therefore it happens that judgment is necessary in taking a history, as well as in treating a patient. Judgment and tact are both necessary, the proportions varying with the character of the patient.

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