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Examples of History Taking

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The patient is a 38 year old male researcher, coming to West China hospital. He complains about having abdominal pain for 4 years, He says that it has been getting worse over the past 3 months.

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Wan, X., Zeng, R. (2020). Examples of History Taking. In: Wan, XH., Zeng, R. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Diagnostics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7677-1_40

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