Manual of internal medicine propaedeutics

Propedeutics and modern studies…

The first meeting between the patient and the doctor is essential for the course of the diagnostic process. In our fast-paced age, there is often not enough time left for warm, human relations, for building mutual trust. A modern approach to the doctor's classic weapons is also needed. Directing the patient's narrative accelerates the gathering of the necessary information.

The clinical examination should be tailored to the patient's complaints and at the same time it should be possible to deduce from it data about some common diseases that are not always supported by corresponding complaints. According to the patient's age, sex, profession and heredity, an "individual screening" looking for socially significant diseases should be carried out.

We will try to oppose the hurried doctor or the narrow specialist, who has the opportunity and qualifications to brilliantly solve diagnostic tasks, but is prevented from losing sight of extremely important health problems. This is also helped by the significant change that has occurred in the last decades in the behavior of the patient.

He is "prepared" by the mass media and the global network, by relatives and acquaintances, he "competently" directs himself to the appropriate specialist with a ready diagnosis and even treatment.
The change in life and work, in the health insurance of our population allows us today to evaluate the history taking from a different angle, without having any claims to change the classical approach.

• Guide to propaedeutics of
• internal diseases