Issues of Studying and Implementing the Subjective Method of Examining Patients in the Internal Medicine Clinic (Part I)
The article covers the diagnostic and medico-psychological significance of the subjective method of examining patients, and outlines its historical and theoretical background. We analyze the concept of “patient complaints” and how it corresponds to the opinions on questioning expressed by well-known Russian physicians. The methodical and methodological aspects of obtaining medical history are analyzed, taking into account personal, age-related, and clinical features of patients.