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Family Medical Records (cont.)

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Things Doctors Want to Know When They Evaluate a Patient

When doctors take a medical history from a patient, they typically go through a structured, routine set of questions that are combined with their examination and diagnostic information to help them to make medical decisions.

Other than questions pertaining to a presenting symptom or complaint, doctors usually want to know previous medical problems, recent hospitalizations, chronic (long-standing) diseases, operations, current medications, allergy or intolerance to medications, social and occupational history, medical problems of family members, name of the primary-care or family physician, and the date of last visit to the doctor.

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Physiatry (pronounced fizz ee at' tree) is the term used to describe the specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation and is derived from two Greek words "physikos" (physical) and "iatreia" (art of healing).

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