CLINICAL MEDICINE 

Clinical medicine helps in easy tracing of precise history to understand the etiology of a patient’s problem. Most of the causative reasons are identified by interpreting medical history, family history and clinical diagnosis. Revealing present illness history will help in retrieval of clinical information with the help of clinical medicine. Clinical medicine helps in easy understanding of pathophysiology of the disease etiology. It is carried out by quantifying the exposure to illness and exposure to causative agent. Knowledge of clinical medicine helps in complete data collection of patient. It correlates patience of physician to obtain the information and their listening capability to individual’s complaint. Clinical medicine includes review of past clinical medicine history, past surgical history, medications history, allergic reactions, smoking history, alcohol and other drug usage, obstetric, sexual activity, family history and work/ hobbies and others.

Dimensions of clinical medicine

There are eight dimensions of clinical medicine and these are referred as Old carts. Old carts depend on analysis findings, past history of an individual, associated disease symptoms characterization, severity, individual profile and risk factors.

• Onset
• Location / radiation
• Duration of exposure
• Character
• Aggravating factors
• Relieving factors
• Timing
• Severity

 Review of systems (ROS)

Review of system is considered as a clinical puzzle. Review of system includes the list of questionnaires according to the human organ system which covers depth of dysfunction and disease. It is used as a screening tool to encounter the patients. Particular risk can be easily identified. ROS defines symptoms of disease with the help of history of present illness. ROS development is on the basis of specific patient characteristics, findings of clinical examination, past history and associated risk factors. Based on the findings, physicians look for diagnosis with the help of adjuvant testing. Clinical medicine reflects accurate clinical conditions of an individual. At times it helps in findings of medical disorders of unrecognized physical or mental conditions may lead to mortality or morbidity of an individual.

Questions:

• What is clinical puzzle?
• Name dimensions of clinical medicine.
• What is review of system?