Talk:Medical history

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I've proposed a merger between this page and Doctrine of Recollection. The discussion of this merger and the discussion of the alternate meanings of this term are related. I don't personally feel confident enough to make the decision. Hopefully someone will! user:Jabot the Scrob

[edit] Past medical history

Medical history is from the past. So why is it "Past medical history"?


[edit] term in psychology

I've removed the reference to the psychological term definition here for the time being.

In psychology, anamnesis means recollection, remembering.

Courtland 04:03, July 23, 2005 (UTC)


This is a little confusing to me, a doctor. I wanted to link to medical history, which redirects here. I'd guess that 99% of the people who use the term medical history frequently, and even take medical history daily, wouldn't recognize the word anamnesis if it dropped on them from the sky. I happen to be in the other 1%, and I love Greek and history as much as the next fellow, but I'm not sure that anamnesis shouldn't redirect to medical history rather than the other way around; especially as there appear to be at least two other senses of anamnesis: the particular definition used by psychologists and psychiatrists, which is different than the medical history taken by other practitioners; and the Platonic sense, which is a term used by philosophers, not medical practitioners.

I'd welcome discussion of this: user_talk:ikkyu2; if I don't hear back in a month or two, I'll probably reshuffle this around to make it more clear. -Ikkyu2 21:40, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Kappa's recent new article medical history no longer redirects to anamnesis, fixing the above problem. -Ikkyu2 10:21, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

I too take many medical histories in a day and I have never heard or used the term anamnesis. Lbandler 07:39, 28 September 2005 (UTC)