The art of medicine in patient evaluation: multisystemic approach to symptom

Year 2020, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1 - 4, 31.03.2020

Aydın Çifci Ömer Özcömert

Abstract

Medicine is an art, which requires to evaluate various symptoms by utilizing different disciplines. Symptoms of the human body that given against particular situations, might also show up in the different system apart from the system that involves the pathology. Physicians can detect the underlying pathology by having detailed patient history and a good physical examination. In this review, some of the symptoms that are not specific to a particular disease but arise in the initial period of many diseases and which may sometimes be clues for diagnosis with further examinations are mentioned.

Keywords

Symptom, art of medicine, approach

Hasta değerlendirmede hekimlik sanatı: semptoma multisistemik yaklaşım

Abstract

Tıp, çeşitli semptomların farklı disiplinlerden yararlanarak bir arada değerlendirilmesini gerektiren bir sanattır. İnsan vücudunun belirli durumlara karşı verdiği semptomlar, patolojinin bulunduğu organ sisteminin dışında başka sistemlerde de kendini gösterebilir. Hekimler, detaylı bir öykü ve iyi bir fizik muayene ile pek çok semptomun altında yatan patolojiyi saptayabilirler. Bu derlememizde belirli bir hastalığa özgün olmayıp, birçok hastalığın başlangıç döneminde ortaya çıkan ve bazen ileri incelemelerle tanı için ipucu olabilecek bazı semptomlardan bahsedilmiştir.

Keywords

Semptom, hekimlik sanatı, yaklaşım

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