In this modern era of lost humans, how a medical system can thrive with history taking to reach a diagnosis? As a neurophysicist, the speciality itself is dependent much on history than any other speciality. Now there is an increasing trend among patients to hide relevant past histories, for no reasons known to me. Neurological illnesses still carry a tag of social stigma because of the prevailing therapeutic nihilism, which is one of the reasons for hiding the past. But it may mislead the clinician.
How to go about it in this hide and seek game in this era of CPA? The patient can, later on, accuse the doctor of not noting down what he or she said? Should we go ahead recording the history taking to avoid a U-turn in future? Share your experiences about history taking which is the backbone of clinical diagnosis?
