Diagnosis

Author: Chen Wenbin
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Publish Date: 2004-02-06
Features: Diagnostics is a discipline that applies basic medical theories, knowledge, and skills to diagnose diseases. It serves as a required course for medical students to transition from studying basic medical subjects, including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, histology and embryology, pathophysiology, and pathology, to learning clinical medical disciplines. Its main content includes collecting medical history through interviews to comprehensively and systematically grasp the patient's symptoms. Through methods such as observation, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, it carefully investigates the signs present in the patient and performs necessary laboratory tests, such as hematological tests, biochemical tests, and etiological tests, as well as instrumental examinations like electrocardiography, X-rays, and ultrasound, to reveal or discover the patient's overall clinical manifestations. Learning to obtain these clinical signs and mastering the basic skills of collecting this clinical data are essential. By applying the learned basic medical theories, it elucidates the pathophysiological basis of the patient's clinical manifestations and proposes possible diagnoses, laying a foundation for studying clinical medical disciplines, clinical observation, and clinical practice.