Abstract

This study looks at how doctors explain diagnostic analyses to their patients, as well as the many ways in which patients react to hearing these explanations from their doctors. The focus of this study is on how patients respond to their doctors' explanations. The results show that when making diagnoses, primary care physicians in China frequently use the exclusionary technique. In primary care consultations, medical testing (in the form of clinical tests) is typically performed to confirm the developing diagnosis. In addition, the descriptions that patients provide of their symptoms cannot align with the opinions of the specialists. It has been observed that the process of diagnosing is an evolving one that takes place at virtually every level of the consultations that have been accumulated.

Because of these discoveries, the process of diagnosis is no longer comprised of a single step (Byrne and Long, 1976), but rather a process that is continuous and continues for a significant amount of time (i.e. assessing the symptoms, explaining the symptom cause, providing a provisional diagnosis, and making a conclusion of the final diagnosis).

Keywords

• Diagnostic Analysis,
• Medical Testing

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