When taking a history, you should:
a. ask the patient to give you any informa-tion they can recall about their health.
b. start the interview with the patient's fam-ily history.
c. use a chronologic and sequential frame-work.
d. use a holistic and eclectic structure.
C
To give structure to the present problem or chief complaint, the provider should proceed in a chronologic and sequential framework. Asking patients to give you any information they can re-call about their health and using a holistic and electric structure do not provide structure to the history. Gathering the patient's family history is only the first step.
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