Medical history

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Medical history
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present

• How do you feel?
• Whats wrong?
• Where does it hurt?
• Since when?
• How often?
• How long does it last?
• What makes it better?
• What makes it worse?
• Has it happened before?

Fever Night sweats Gout Pain
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Past

• Have you ever had?
• When?
• Have you ever had an operation?
• Have you ever been hospitalized?
• Are you taking any medicines\drugs?
• Are you allergic to any medicines\drugs?
• Have you taken illegal drugs?

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Family history

• Does anyone in your family have?
• epilepsy
• headache\migraine
• Cancer
• Stroke
• Heart disease
• Diabetes
• hypertension

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Social history

• Do you smoke?
• Have you ever smoked?
• How much do you smoke a day?
• How long have you been smoking?
• Do you drink?
• How much each day?
• Have you ever used drugs?
• Which ones?

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On examination instructions

• Sit down
• Stand up
• Lay down
• Relax
• Open
• Close
• Breathe like I do
• Breathe deeply
• Say 99
• Do like I do

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GUS AND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

• DIARRHEA
• INDIGESTION
• HEARTBURN
• NAUSEA
• VOMITING
• JAUNDICE
• GALLSTONES
• CONSTIPATION

• HEPATITIS
• HEMORRHOIDS
• VENERAL DISEASES
• GONORRHEA
• ULCERS
• COLITIS
• GASTRITIS

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RS

• COLD
• DIFFICULTY BREATHING
• FLU
• DRY COUGH
• EMPHYSEMA
• SORE THROAT
• PHLEGM
• ASTHMA
• PNEUMONIA

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CVS

• CHEST PAIN
• PALPITATIONS
• HEART ATTACK
• SHORTNESS OF BREATH

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CNS- NEUROLOGICAL

• CONVULSION
• NUMBNESS
• TREMORS
• EPILEPSY
• FAINTIN SPELLS
• PARALYSIS
• BLURRED VISION
• EPILEPTIC FIT

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FIT

• A SUDDEN ATTACK OF CERTAIN DISEASES IN WHICH YOU
  BECOME UNCONSCIOUS
• IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO BECOME
  UNCONSCIOUS YOU FEEL FAINT
• DIZZINESS

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TO BECOME BETTER AFTER ILLNESS

• TO GET BETTER
• IM MUCH BETTER NOW
• TO RECOVER
• IM RECOVERED SLOWLY
• TO MAKE A RAPID RECOVERY

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ALLERGY

• TO BE ALLERGIC TO
• IM ALLERGIC TO POLLEN
• YOU HAVE AN ALLERGY TO GOATS MILK

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MEDICINES \ DRUGS

• A SUBSTANCE THAT YOU USE WHEN YOU ARE ILL
• DRUG
• A CHEMICAL THAT IS USED AS A MEDICINE
• A POWERFUL NEW DRUG
• A NEW DRUG TO TREAT CANCER

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DRUGS

• PAINKILLER \ ANALGESIC
• ANTIBIOTIC
• PENICILLIN
• SEDATIVE
• SLEEPING PILL
• ANTITODE
• VACCINATION \ VACCINE
• TO VACCINATE SB AGAINST