The medical history, case history, or anamnesis (from Greek: ἀνά, aná, "open", and μνήσις, mnesis, "memory") of a patient is a set of information the...

In a medical encounter, a past medical history (abbreviated PMH) is the total sum of a patient's health status prior to the presenting problem. Different...

that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. The history of medicine is the study and documentation...

The history of medical diagnosis began in earnest from the days of Imhotep in ancient Egypt and Hippocrates in ancient Greece but is far from perfect despite...

Randall (1976), is "The first successful articulation of the medical necessity defense in the history of the common law, and indeed, the first case to extend...

very little of the medical history of the family, but the medical history could be considered a specific subset of the total history of a family.[citation...

signs or symptoms of a medical condition. It generally consists of a series of questions about the patient's medical history followed by an examination...

of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction. A medical record includes a variety...

SAMPLE history is a mnemonic acronym to remember key questions for a person's medical assessment. The SAMPLE history is sometimes used in conjunction...

This is a timeline of the history of medicine and medical technology. 3300 BC – During the Stone Age, early doctors used very primitive forms of herbal...